solarbird | Fascism Watch Catch-Up: Anti-LGBT activism and disinformation

Okay, so let’s catch up a little bit. Seems all I’m doing lately to be honest, but, well, it is what it is.

First, a quick update on our internal refugee situation:

Elle: Gender Refugees Explained

Let’s move to disinformation. The fundamentalist movement, which forms the core of the MAGA fascist movement, has trafficked in it my entire life. I’ve written many, many times about how they redefine “truth” to mean “whatever serves the cause,” most recently in the Superbowl Jesus series. Until you understand this, you can understand nothing about how their movement works.

Scientific American: Pseudoscience Has Long Been Used to Oppress Transgender People
LGBTQ Nation: Right-wingers falsely blame Sunday’s megachurch shooting on a trans woman (It’s dogma in the right that literally every notable mass shooter of the last two years is secretly trans.)
Assigned: Matt Walsh’s 2014 Iran Study Says Most Trans People Have Personality Disorders
Daily Beast: J.K. Rowling Insinuates Nazis Did Not Burn Trans Books

Media need to stop cooperating with it. Media are still assigning good faith to bald-faced lies, and in some cases – such as the New York Times – it’s to the point where you have to ascribe motive.

Assigned: Pamela Paul Shows NYT Opinion’s Lack of Accountability to the Truth
Erin in the Morning: Debunked: Misleading NYT Anti-Trans Article By Pamela Paul Relies On Pseudoscience
Sad Brown Girl: Detransition is a Mythology
Julia Serano on Medium: Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies
Interview: Jess O’Thomson on Brianna Ghey and Anti-Trans Media Bias

So much of this is fuelled by media taking repeatedly disproven bullshit in good faith over again every single time they see it. The right know they do this. They rely on it.

And the American Psychological Association can post all of these things they want:

APA Policy Statement on Affirming Evidence-Based Inclusive Care for Transgender, Gender Diverse, and Nonbinary Individuals, Addressing Misinformation, and the Role of Psychological Practice and Science

But it won’t matter because the right don’t care about reality until and unless they’re absolutely forced to. If you’re in a position within US media to go “We have to care about what’s actually real,” you need to be bloody well at it, while there’s still time.

Everything else can be a list, I guess. Gotta clear it out!