Reports
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Manufacturing the doubt that fuels the network
How anti-LGBTQ+ medical disinformation is generated and used to influence policy.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network
Before the campaign to end gender-affirming care, anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience was cultivated and disseminated in campaigns to discourage funding for HIV/AIDS programs, limit access to comprehensive sex education curricula, prevent marriage equality and recognition of LGBTQ+ families, institute and maintain the U.S. military’s ban on openly gay and lesbian troops known as “don’t ask, don’t tell,”…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Foundations of the Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
Throughout the last five years, a major question has been: “How did the anti-transgender pseudoscience movement achieve success so quickly?” In responding to this question, it is important to first note that cisnormativity is nothing new. Anti-transgender sentiment has been vocalized louder and mobilized more efficiently in recent years, but this is due to decades…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Merging Pseudoscience and Politics
The Right-Wing Strategy to Use Anti-Trans Disinformation to Split the LGBTQ+ Community & its Allies
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Policing Sex, Sexuality and Gender
The Future of the Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Movement
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The Pseudoscience Network in Action: A Case Study of Virginia
In 2023, the Virginia House of Delegates adopted Sage’s Law. The law was drafted in part by the Virginia Family Foundation’s Founding Freedoms Law Center to out transgender students to their parents and bar schools from engaging in socially affirming practices without parental consent. As the House of Delegates considered the bill in January 2023,…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Combating Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience
Helping navigate the perils of anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience by analyzing the groups and actors using the language of science to attack the medical consensus supporting LGBTQ+ affirming health care and resources to counter anti-trans narratives and extremism. About the Report In the Report Resources Conversion Therapy: Fact over Fiction LGBTQ+ Health Care Buzzwords Common Myths about…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Mississippi’s Youth Legal System Must Invest in Its Children, Not Incarcerate Them
For years, Mississippi’s youth legal system has treated young Black people as criminals who need punishment instead of children who need support and care. Such a system has increasingly used incarceration as the default response to youth crime, even though youth arrests have declined significantly over the past 20 years. Incarcerating children not only does…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Report: Louisiana chooses incarceration over rehabilitation for children
On July 19, 2022, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards announced his decision to transfer incarcerated young people to the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola – an adult prison with a long history of human rights abuses. The decision was emblematic of a state that consistently sees young Black people as criminals to be…
