Democrats members of the US house of representative have called on speaker Mike Johnson to crackdown on anti-trans rhetoric.

On Tuesday (18 November), 212 Democrats, led by Mark Takano and trans congresswoman Sarah McBride, signed an open letter sent to the Republican speaker condemning the rise of anti-trans rhetoric being used by members of congress, and called for the house’s rules of decorum to be enforced.

“We have heard calls by members of congress to institutionalise all transgender people, comments referring to transgender people as mentally ill, and false suggestions by high-level political figures that transgender people are inherently violent and must be addressed as a national security threat,” the signatories to the letter claimed.

That language, along with a “rising number

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