SACRAMENTO, Calif.—Chanting “Go home, Nazis” and “Trans rights are human rights,” more than 100 activists—some carrying Antifa insignia and wielding clubs—attacked journalists across the street from California’s state Capitol on March 10.
The transgender activists, carrying a black-and-red flag and signs with other Antifa insignia, staged a “Day of Rage” protest about an hour before a planned and permitted rally promoting Detransition Awareness Day on the steps of the Capitol in Sacramento.
A detransitioner is someone who has either socially or medically transitioned their gender, but later regretted the decision and re-embraced their original birth gender.
Detransitioners and their supporters hold a rally on the steps of the California state Capitol in Sacramento on March 10, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
Transgender activists hold signs in front of the California state Capitol building in Sacramento on March 10, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)
A few days ago, a flyer calling for “a day of rage” against well-known detransitioner Chloe Cole and calling her supporters a “gang of astroturf transphobes,” surfaced online. Cole, 18, from the Central Valley, is currently suing health care provider Kaiser Permanente for giving her a double mastectomy when she was 15 years old; she has spoken against legislation that made California a trans “sanctuary state.”…