Anti-Trans

Anti-trans advocacy aims to remove government protections and restrict access to necessary programs and services for trans people; demonize and persecute people based on their gender identity; and incite Negative and/or bigoted attitudes or actions directed towards trans people. Transphobia can be structural, institutional, interpersonal, and/or internalized. Learn more as a culture war diversion from broader anti-democracy organizing.

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Introduction

A Room Of Their Own

How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy

Heron Greenesmith

Report

101: Anti-LGBTQ Organizing

Heron Greenesmith

101

Anti-Trans Legislation and Why It’s a Feminist Issue with Heron Greenesmith

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 1

Political Research Associates

A sign that says "Black & Brown Trans Lives Matter."

Podcast

Deep Dive

Political Research Associates

Combating Anti-Transgender Disinformation

Anti-LGBTQ Organizing 201

Part 2 in a series, this resource explains strategies to combat anti-transgender mis- and disinformation.

Heron Greenesmith

January 27, 2023

101

201: Combating Anti-Transgender Disinformation

Political Research Associates

Gender Ideology Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

The fight against so-called “gender ideology,” a catch-all term used by various factions of the global right to disparage any disruption of a narrow understanding of the traditional family, has well and truly arrived here in the United States.

Heron Greenesmith

March 26, 2020

Article

"Stop Gender Ideology" sign on bus stop in Polish

Political Research Associates

Aberration of Common Sense

Anti-trans activists and the ramifications of the Bell v. Tavistock decision for transgender youth

Greenesmith details the repressive rhetoric expressed at a recent convening of international anti-trans advocates and activists, who gathered to strategize following a harmful new ruling against the right to care for trans youth in the U.K.

Heron Greenesmith

January 30, 2021

Article

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Public Eye

From Courts to Clinics

How the Anti-Gender Far Right is Reshaping Texas

In Texas, state Attorney General Ken Paxton is testing the powers of the AG to enact wide-ranging right-wing policies, including anti-trans and anti-abortion legislation, that extends beyond state lines.

Chancie Calliham

April 2, 2025

Article

Ken Paxton and Greg Abott on a yellow background with a dotted pattern on it.

Public Eye

Sporting Authoritarianism

Anti-Trans Feminists in the Anti-Gender Movement

The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition unites anti-trans feminist groups in a crusade against “gender ideology” in women’s sports, exemplifying the growing prevalence of anti-gender campaigns in the U.S.

Hannah Silver

April 2, 2025

Article

A pink and blue background with cut outs of two women speaking at podiums and two protestors holding a sign that says "trans athletes belong in sport".

Political Research Associates

Organizing for the Year Ahead: Countering Anti-LGBTQ Persecution and Violence in 2023

A PRA Webinar Roundtable

This briefing laid out what to expect in Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in 2023, and strategies to combat it.

Political Research Associates

February 3, 2023

Webinar

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Political Research Associates

Brave New World

The legal landscape post-Bostock

In the wake of the momentous Bostock decision, conservatives are laying the groundwork for challenges to the employment protections that it provides, using Justice Alito’s dissent as a road map.

Alejandra Caraballo

Heron Greenesmith

October 27, 2020

Article

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Political Research Associates

New Anti-Trans Promise

An Ohio state legislator may have leaked a new set of anti-trans “principles” endorsed by three major anti-LGBT organizations.

An as-of-yet unpublished new set of principles appear to consolidate Christian Right anti-LGBT advocacy into a single document with huge repercussions for LGBT children.

Heron Greenesmith

February 12, 2021

Article

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Political Research Associates

Betsy DeVos Is Complicit in Evangelical Right’s Assault on Trans Athletes

Anti-LGBT group Alliance Defending Freedom, funded in part by the DeVos family, is representing three cisgender students suing Connecticut to prevent transgender athletes from participating in state-level athletics.

Heron Greenesmith

June 11, 2020

Article