https://xtramagazine.com/power/far-right-feminist-fascist-220810
"When I first started asking about the connection between anti-trans politics
and the American right wing, my concerns were simple. I’d covered abortion for
several years, and some of the tactics being used by organized
transphobes—noisy “protests” outside clinics, or doxing and harassing
doctors—were similar enough to the “pro-life” movement’s that I expected some
groups were working together.
I was right; there was a connection, which I’ve covered already for Xtra and
other outlets. What I did not expect was that asking researchers to situate
anti-trans activists in the context of the broader right would turn out to be
one of the scariest questions I’d ever ask. Every researcher I spoke to told me
that the situation on the ground was far worse than I thought. Anti-trans
activists had not hitched their wagons to the American right wing. The far
right was using transphobia to advance their larger agenda, and that agenda was
both more violent and a lot more successful than I knew.
What follows is an attempt to summarize that agenda—although the full picture,
comprised as it is of activist splinter groups, bizarre conspiracy theories,
social-media hate campaigns and titanic global funding initiatives, is both too
complex and too weird to ever fully summarize. It’s a story in which
“eco-fascists” infiltrating lesbian folk festivals bump up against anti-Semitic
conspiracy bloggers and Vladimir Putin’s global dark money operations; strange
enough that it’s hard to take seriously, but very serious, and increasingly
dangerous to us all. This is how trans-eliminationist thought became mainstream
politics, and it has grave implications, not just for trans people, but for
democracy itself."
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
