Trump's DOJ is looking for ways to ban trans Americans from owning guns

We’ve lost count of how many times people told us “nobody is taking guns away from trans people.” They said it with smug confidence, as if we were paranoid or making up some dystopian fantasy. But here we are, watching the current administration float the idea of banning trans people from owning firearms. We fucking told you.

The government has never needed much of an excuse to strip rights from those it deems undesirable. From Jim Crow laws designed to keep Black people disarmed to Japanese internment, history shows that when politicians carve out “exceptions,” they always start with groups the public won’t defend. And now it’s trans people.

What makes this even more absurd is that you can’t even outright ban people with mental illness from owning guns. Courts have ruled that blanket bans violate due process because “mental illness” is too broad and too easily weaponized. But instead of targeting actual dangerousness, the state wants to say if you’re trans, you’re out. It goes further than restrictions on people with diagnosed psychiatric conditions. This isn’t about safety, it’s about politics and control.

Every time people swore “that’ll never happen,” they helped build the framework for exactly this. And the truth is simple: rights are not privileges handed out by politicians, they are inherent. The second you allow the government to decide who is “worthy” of self-defense, you’ve already agreed to a system that will one day come for you.