How Transphobic Moral Panics Fuel Authoritarian Politics
“Critiques like our own are often characterized as “silencing.” But that is a power we do not have — and large swathes of the mainstream media have bought into transphobic disinformation [politicalresearch.org], regardless of the evidence. They are not about denying individual, personal experience either — more often than not, it is trans experience that is denied space by mainstream Negative and/or bigoted attitudes or actions directed towards trans people. Transphobia can be structural, institutional, interpersonal, and/or internalized. Learn more . Equally, our aim is not to speak on behalf of trans people but to build on our research to make clear the dangers of essentializing, exclusionary discourses — not just to trans people but to all communities threatened by the growing reactionary movement.”