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In the current cultural and political landscape, LGBTQ people — and especially transgender and nonbinary people — face an onslaught of attacks, including extraordinary levels of inflammatory, false, dehumanizing rhetoric.

Hard-right extremist Matt Shea has been increasingly active in the Christian supremacist movement, including attending an anti-trans event in Seattle on May 27 sponsored by Don’t Mess With Our Kids (DMOK), at which more than 20 attendees were arrested.

On Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, in a departure from his previous calls for transparency, announced that he would not ask for a vote on whether the files pertaining to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein should be released.

The QAnon conspiracy theory was allegedly built to hold elite child predators accountable. As Trump dismisses the Epstein filings, many in QAnon world are trying to find a way to give him a pass — while only a few others are outraged.

The policing of gender has become a common tactic among some policymakers, whether it’s banning trans people in sports, legislation regulating bathroom usage or the targeting of drag performances.