OPINION: 'We as a country are living through an extraordinary moment of hatred and demonization of the LGBTQ+ community,' writes Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz.
Pima County Supervisor Matt Heinz Special to the Arizona Daily Star The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
People are also reading… We as a country are living through an extraordinary moment of hatred and demonization of the LGBTQ+ community. It is the throughline that connects a member of the Pima County community hurling slanderous slurs in my direction to online hate speech to homophobic and transphobic bills being passed by our elected leaders in state legislatures.
This pernicious lie has real-life consequences. As my colleague on the board, District 1 Supervisor Rex Scott highlighted, brandishing about the word pedophile has a traumatizing effect on actual survivors of child abuse.
The slaughter at Club Q in Colorado Springs last November that left five people dead is just one devastating and horrific example of the real-life consequences of hate speech. According to the Human Rights Campaign, nearly one in five hate crimes is now motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ bias. The past two years have been the deadliest for transgender people since the organization started tracking such attacks.
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