Clear and Present: Anti-Trans Hate


Heritage Foundation-Project 2025

American College of Pediatricians

Genspect

The Cass Report


As a result of advances in public education about gender-expansive identity and expression in children and youth, and access to gender-affirming approaches such as social gender transition and medical interventions became more visible to the public and media; extremist political and ideological opposition to those advances increased beginning in 2014. There is evidence opposition was elevated as a wedge-issue pivot once marriage equality became the law of the land.

This workshop examines the recent history of anti-LGBTQ+ with a specific-focus on intolerance of gender-nonconforming and gender-expansive identity and expression in children, youth, and their supportive families.

Learning Objectives and Skills Acquisition:
  • Greater understanding of how wedge-messaging is developed
  • Examination of the history of anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation
  • Analysis of anti-trans measures in The Heritage Foundation Project 2025, and debunking disinformation from the American College of Pediatricians, Genspect, and the Cass Report about the benefits of gender-affirming care
  • How to discern evidence-based information from disinformation
  • Identification of ways disinformation impacts individuals, families & communities
  • How to effectively respond to disinformation and hate-motivated speech


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