“People want to extinguish us,” says James. “Some of our most influential people in the world are called for the extinguishment of transgender people, which is a genocide.”
A trans-identified male TikToker with "she/they" pronouns and over 420,000 followers has made a video telling so-called "trans kids" that they are loved, but that Republican politicians are hatefully weaponizing and politicizing their "right to transition."
JamesIsSmiling, whose TikTok persona appears to be a knock-off of Dylan Mulvaney, came out as non-binary 4 years ago, at the age of 22 or 23, but claims to have always been aware of being neither male nor female.
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"I’ve always known I wasn’t a boy and I wasn’t a girl," explained the biological male. "When I was growing up, it was really confusing because we didn’t have words to talk about that."
James went on to say how wonderful it is to see so many publicly queer and trans kids these days, who have trans friends and are part of trans communities, something that James would have liked to have growing up.
But then the message turns serious, as James’ legions of young gender-confused followers are told that there are a lot of politicians and powerful people weaponizing and politicizing their bodies and their right to transition.
"You probably talk to your parents about it, or maybe your friends, and I know sometimes you DM me about it and I read them, as many as I can, and I just want you to know that I love you," said James.
The TikTok influencer calls these people scary and admits to being scared too, but informs the young impressionable minds watching that those trying to ban experimental child sex changes are doing so because they see "our joy and our self-acceptance and our beauty as a threat, because we celebrate who we are."
It does not appear to have entered James’ mind that there may be other reasons why politicians might seek to prohibit doctors from performing irreversible procedures on vulnerable children without a shred of good quality evidence to support such interventions.
Next comes a warning to the probably already terrified young people that things are likely to get worse for them, but James advises that young followers their joy at being trans is their "greatest tool for resistance."
“As long as we have joy for who we are, they will never win. I love you,” James signs off.
James explains being prompted to record this bizarre message of love and inspiration because a lot of people were commenting on the TikToker’s last video saying how scared they were.
Given the content of the previous video, it’s easy to see why James’ young followers might have been whipped up into a state of fear and panic.
"We are in an active trans genocide in our country, and people don’t want to name it that because they’re afraid to use that word," James tells viewers.
James gives the 210 "anti-trans bills" that are currently up throughout different US states, including those that seek to ban doctors from experimenting on distressed youth in gender clinics, as evidence of this active trans genocide.
"People want to extinguish us," says James. "Some of our most influential people in the world are called for the extinguishment of transgender people, which is a genocide."
Then James compares Republican politicians intervening to end what many believe will shape up to be one of the greatest medical scandals of all time to the Holocaust.
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