Fact Check Overview: Falsehoods and Misleading Tropes About Transgender People
“Anti-LGBTQ media figures, political leaders, and others are enlisting classic fear-mongering tactics: propagating malicious harmful lies and bigotry to target a historically marginalized group of people with false, dehumanizing narratives. All in an effort to retract the basic civil and human rights of transgender people, while attempting to consolidate political power and distract from real issues. These current campaigns are spelled out in the extreme-right agenda of Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation’s 2021 so-called “Promise to America’s Children.” [politicalresearch.org] They include attempts to: ban essential health care for trans youth and adults; eliminate participation in sports; prohibit access to bathrooms and other public facilities; prevent access to accurate state and federal identity documents; endanger trans inmates by incarcerating them in institutions inconsistent with their gender identity; dismantle basic civil rights including housing and workplace discrimination protections and military service; as well as restricting freedom of expression by suppressing and even criminalizing books, education, and culture by and about LGBTQ people.”