The last two years have been the deadliest for transgender people, especially Black transgender women, with nearly one in five of all hate crimes motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ bias, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Several new reports detailed the growing violence and intimidation against LGBTQ+ people, with white nationalists targeting Pride events and showing up to Drag Queen story hours at local libraries, shouting homophobic and transphobic slurs.
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) released a report last year, which found that there was a nationwide surge of at least 174 anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrations.
Online and offline these attacks have taken different forms, but all with the same purpose – to demonize the LGBTQ+ community.
The core narratives driving these attacks against the LGBTQ+ community include disinformation about gender-affirming care for LGBTQ+ youth, false allegations of "grooming" children and the indoctrination of a "so-called LGBTQ+ agenda" in schools, said Sarah Moore, an Anti-LGBTQ+ Extremism Analyst at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in partnership with Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).
"This grooming story in particular really picked up in traction in 2021 with the passage of the 'Don't Say Gay' bill in Florida, in which different folks started using the term 'grooming' and misappropriating it by making it into something that is demonizing the LGBTQ+ community as a whole," Moore said.
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