Whether it’s comic books, animated TV-shows, or movies, X-Men has had an everlasting effect on people all over the world.
Starting September 1, 1963, the X-Men has been a longstanding series of diversity, inclusion, and issues of discrimination.
The X-Men are mutants from all walks of life that have unique powers and abilities. From shapeshifting to metal claws, telepathy to power over magnetism, X-Men has a wide variety of powers and personalities.
In the comics, animated show, and the movies, the X-Men struggle as society discriminates against mutants for being different. The mutants and the X-Men struggle as they discover their own powers and discovering who they are or want to be.
The mutants are ostracized for their natural abilities that they were born with and make them who they are. Throughout the comics, series, and movies, the mutants are deemed the threat to society due to their differences. Though, in many comic books, there are mutants that seek to attack human-kind and build a world safe for mutants, and sometimes only for mutants.
It is thanks to Charles Xavier, a fellow mutant, that he helps build a relationship between mutant-kind and mankind. Though that battle is a tough one and is rife with failures and roadblocks, Xavier does not give up.
There are many regular humans that side with the mutants and rally with them as they fight for their freedom. In the X-Men franchise, it is primarily the governments that are trying to capture and imprison the mutants, claiming them to be dangerous to society. In some story-lines, we see the government create a drug that eliminates the mutant gene, claiming the gene is an abomination and an atrocity to God’s creations.
The government even created a force of robots that would hunt down and exterminate mutants, the Sentinels. The Sentinels were built out of fear and ignorance. The government feared that the mutants would be too powerful and eliminate any and all government entities.
In society today, we continue to see those that are trying to find themselves struggle in life. That struggle is at times internal and external. From sexual orientation to gender identity, people are fighting against an old society that refuses to accept change and acceptance.
The LGBT community is being targeted and ostracized like the mutants in the X-Men. They are the targets of threats and hate from all around the world. There are hate groups that have targeted any and all LGBT events or rallies. The Proud Boys are such group that seeks to spread hate and violence.
Although the U.S. government has not created devices or laws to round up people of the LGBT community or its supporters and imprison them, there are too many groups that act to eliminate anyone that is LGBT or supports their lives.
In the U.S. alone, according to the ACLU as of November 2024, there is around 559 anti-LGBT bills trying to ban curriculum that mentions or includes LGBT, healthcare service barriers, and religious exemptions from discrimination against the LGBT.
According to an FBI report, 13,829 related offenses were due to crimes motivated by bias towards race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity.
Every lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer person in this country should be free live their lives without fear that we’ll be the target of a violent incident purely because of who we are and who we love. -Kelley Robinson, Human Rights Campaign President.
We are all trying our best to put one foot in front of the other and move forward in life. Every person, no matter who they are, deserves to be who they want to be without being threatened with violence or rejected by the country they live in.
Thank you.
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