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

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For anti-trans bigotry associated with the second Trump administration, see Trump’s Authoritarian Assault on Trans People.

2025

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

February 13.   The New York Times: U.S. Park Service Strikes Transgender References From Stonewall Website.

February 25.   Jaclyn Diaz: Federal prisons prep to move trans inmates as early as this week.

March 10.   Jo Yurcaba: Texas bill would make identifying as transgender a felony punishable by jail.

April 30.   Code Switch: In the face of trans erasure, what can we learn from Marsha P. Johnson?

May 16.   The Guardian: US military commanders to be told to oust trans troops via medical checks.

May 23.   Fenit Nirappil & Casey Parks: All Medicaid gender transition care is cut in late addition to GOP tax bill: The prohibition abruptly expanded to include adults hours before the House passed the bill, escalating the crackdown on transgender care once focused on children.

May 30.   Geoff Mulvihill: Most LGBTQ+ adults feel Americans don’t accept transgender people, Pew poll finds.

June 10.   Yessenia Funes: Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement: An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

June 11.  Alyssa Tirrell: Fox News aired more than 400 weekday segments mentioning trans athletes over just four months.

July 5.  Katie Burkholder: South Georgia library manager fired for trans-inclusive display.

August 29.   Will Carless: No, there is not an ‘epidemic’ of shootings by trans people.

September 4.   Perry Stein & Natalie Allison: DOJ discusses a potential ban on transgender people owning firearms.

September 7.   Ashifa Kassam: LGBTQ+ Americans consider move to Canada to escape Trump: ‘I’m afraid of living here’.

September 11.   Rachel Savage: Politicians in at least 51 countries used anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric during elections, NGO finds.

September 16.   Kevin Rector & Ana Ceballos: Charlie Kirk railed against transgender rights. His killing has further fueled the fight.

September 16.   Dell Cameron & Andrew Couts: Heritage Foundation Uses Bogus Stat to Push a Trans Terrorism Classification:By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, Heritage promotes a false link between transgender identity and violence in its push for the FBI to create a new terrorism category.

September 20.   Olivia Empson: Four people arrested in Washington after alleged hate crime attack on trans woman.

September 25.   Melissa Gira Grant: The Right​’s Baseless​ Project to ​Link Trans People​ With Extremism: A campaign for the FBI to adopt a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism” is less about law enforcement than politics.

October 16.   Maanvi Singh: Queer and trans immigrants allege forced labor and sexual assault in Ice facility: ‘I was treated worse than an animal.’

November 17.   Veronica Esposito: ‘Fights for our material survival’: documentary goes inside the battle for trans rights.

December 4.   Jaclyn Diaz: DOJ orders prison inspectors to stop considering LGBTQ safety standards.

December 5.   Sam Levin: DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons.

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.