Image: from Jude Ellison S. Doyle’s “Anti-Trans Extremists ‘Come For’ Doctors.”

This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism. See also anti-trans bigotry associated with the second Trump administration, see Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Trans People.

2025

January 24.   David Gilbert: ‘We Have Seen a Lot More Hate’: Trans People Are Already Terrified. After Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order directed against trans people this week, trans and nonbinary people are scared of what happens next.

January 29.   Alex Cooper: Trump signs executive order targeting transgender students, their teachers, and their schools.

February 4.   Odette Yousef: Social media rumors that a trans pilot was in the DCA crash follow a familiar playbook.

February 6.   Odette Yousef: Trump’s anti-trans effort is an agenda cornerstone with echoes in history.

2024

R.G. Cravens: Hate Group Urged Georgia Governor to Ban Trans Kids From School Sports.

David Gilbert: He Worked for a Law Firm Consulting on an Anti-Trans Supreme Court Case.

Lil Kalish:

• A Second Trump Presidency Would Be A Nightmare Scenario For Transgender People.
• The Anti-Trans Movement Is Coming For A Deep-Blue State: California conservatives are trying to get anti-trans measures on the ballot in November. It’s a long shot — but it still gives advocates reason to worry.
• This New Texas Policy Is A ‘Gut Punch’ To Trans People:The new policy could have wide-reaching impact and could affect many of the 92,000 trans adults living in Texas.
• Minnesota Became A ‘Trans Refuge’ Thanks To Tim Walz.
• 17-Year-Old Trans Girl Stabbed Repeatedly At Miami Airport.

Anna Merlan: Transvestigation: What to Know About the Bizarre and Transphobic Conspiracy Theory.

Jack Mirkinson: It’s ‘Blame Trans People’ Season Once Again: DC insiders are rushing to scapegoat trans people rather than take responsibility for their own failures.

Tess Owen: The Far Right Is Spreading Misinformation Claiming the Lakewood Church Shooter Was Trans: Libs of TikTok and Elon Musk rushed to spread the misinformation as part of the far right’s desperate push to make “trans terrorism” a thing.

2023

CNN: Twitter removes transgender protections from hateful conduct policy.

David Gilbert:

• The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People: There’s no evidence the suspect was trans, and he posted repeatedly about his pro-gun stance and his support for former president Donald Trump.
• Inside the Fight to Forcibly Out Transgender Students in California: Even in a blue state where anti-trans education bills have failed, local extremists have found ways to target trans students.

Drew Harwell: How a fake Nashville manifesto fueled anti-trans rage online.

Michael Edison Hayden: Davis, California, Faces Bomb Threats, Harassment From Anti-Trans Extremists.

David D. Kirkpatrick: The Next Targets for the Group That Overturned Roe: Alliance Defending Freedom has won fifteen Supreme Court cases. Now it wants religious exemptions to anti-discrimination laws—and is going after trans rights.

Ben Makuch: Russian Militia Has Links to American Neo-Nazi and Anti-Trans Figures.

Christopher Mathias:

• CPAC Speaker’s Trans Comments About ‘Eradication’ Sound Downright Genocidal: The conservative movement’s annual confab was creepily obsessed with trans kids and showcased the GOP’s alarming and intensifying anti-trans rhetoric.
• He’s The Trans Son Of An Anti-Trans Influencer. It’s His Turn To Speak. Renton Sinclair’s mother is a former Miss Illinois who wants to force trans people out of public life. That’s exactly what makes her a rising star in MAGA World.

Zein Murib: Expect More Right-Wing Anti-Trans, Anti-“Critical Race Theory” Pushes in 2023 – and 2024: In this op-ed, political scientist Zein Murib explains the Republican legislative focus on trans people and “Critical Race Theory.”

Tess Owen & Mack Lamoureux: Suspect in Attack on Canadian Gender Studies Class Was Motivated by Hate:  Police say the stabbing spree, which injured a professor and two students, was a “hate-motivated incident related to gender expression and gender identity.“

Vice News: The Right Is Using the Nashville Shooting to Declare War on Trans People.

The Washington Post:  

• Documents show how conservative doctors influenced abortion, trans rights.
• Florida bills would ban gender studies, limit trans pronouns, erode tenure.
• The conservative doctors upending trans rights: The American College of Pediatricians has promoted views on abortion and transgender care that have been rejected by the medical establishment. But their views are still shaping conservative laws restricting abortion and trans rights across the country.

Anya Zoledziowski: ‘Under His Wings’: Leaked Emails Reveal an Anti-Trans ‘Holy War’: Leaked emails from anti-trans lobbyists and state lawmakers read, at times, like scripts from “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

2022

Center on Extremism: Antisemitism and Anti-Transgender-Hate in Attacks on Gender-Affirming Healthcare.

Tess Owen: Neo-Nazis Protested Near Drag Brunch After Texas GOP Tweeted ‘Alert’: A group of neo-Nazis toting swastikas and transphobic signs gathered near a restaurant hosting a drag brunch in Pflugerville, Texas.

Anya Zoledziowski: How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream.