The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”

Trans people are who we say we are, and we will fight and organize on those grounds.

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The lieutenant governor unseated lesbian U.S. Rep. Angie Craig by nearly 20 points after warning Democrats against retreating from transgender rights.