Perceptions about Trans people has been created by a century's worth of media which overwhelmingly misrepresented & mischaracterized them
The groups also call on Twitter, TikTok and Meta-Facebook and Instagram, to do more to prevent coordinated campaigns of disinformation
The clinic is the only healthcare provider in Tennessee offering clinical care programs for transgender & gender-expansive children
The letter also specified attacks on social media platforms. Many of these threats have been initiated specifically over LGBTQ+ books
Right-wing media’s campaign against children’s hospitals is making it harder for trans people to access lifesaving medical care
“I’m going to that library, I’m going with a bucked of dog shit and I’m pouring it on your parents and rubbing it into their eyes”
Fox is adopting these attacks as part of its own coverage also providing a platform for the individuals responsible to amplify their attacks
Meta has earned at least $12,700 in revenue from over 130 ads that push the anti-LGBTQ “groomer” slur Media Matters has found
Attendees were shielded with the same type of wings that blocked the Westboro Baptist Church during 1999 trial for Matthew Shepard’s killers
According to reactions on social media, many felt it was about time that right-wing threats & intimidation were responded to in kind