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American Fascism And The Groomer Panic – Second Thought
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Citations and Further Reading:
About the current groomer/”gender ideology” moral panic
https://youtu.be/9c6shP-NcfE
https://youtu.be/VBKtLGBVbvM
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/3816964-the-gops-misguided-woke-police/
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/save-children-again-absurd-intensifying-right-wing-panic-lgbtq-people-are-grooming-minors
https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/grooming-narratives-return-anti-lgbtq2s-campaigns-219791
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/05/the-long-sordid-history-of-the-gay-conspiracy-theory.html
https://www.adl.org/resources/blog/what-grooming-truth-behind-dangerous-bigoted-lie-targeting-lgbtq-community
Nazism, fascism and LGBTQ persecution
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3704553
https://www.houstonpress.com/news/how-transphobia-helps-fascists-take-power-11956136 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2021/oct/23/judith-butler-gender-ideology-backlash
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_Nazi_Germany
Prolification of anti-trans bills
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/10/14/anti-trans-bills/
Anti-LGBTQ violence in 2022
https://acleddata.com/2022/11/23/update-fact-sheet-anti-lgbt-mobilization-in-the-united-states/
Hateful rhetoric and the incidence of hate crimes
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3149103
Gender-affirming care statistics
https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/gender-affirming-care-setting-the-record-straight-as-extremist-politicians-in-texas-and-other-states-continue-doubling-down-on-attacking-trans-youth
Boston Children’s Hospital
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/12/03/metro/boston-childrens-faced-months-death-threats-hate-mail-heres-how-staff-are-coping/
Molestation statistics
https://lgbpsychology.org/html/facts_molestation.html
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2011/10-anti-gay-myths-debunked
Moral panics
https://youtu.be/4fU8ajTzYro
Left-handedness
https://juliaserano.medium.com/transgender-agendas-social-contagion-peer-pressure-and-prevalence-c3694d11ed24
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