Sporting Authoritarianism

Anti-Trans Feminists in the Anti-Gender Movement
A pink and blue background with cut outs of two women speaking at podiums and two protestors holding a sign that says "trans athletes belong in sport".

The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition unites anti-trans feminist groups in a crusade against “gender ideology” in women’s sports, exemplifying the growing prevalence of anti-gender campaigns in the U.S.

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Christian [Home] Schooling and How It Advances the Christian Nationalist Project with Dr. Chrissy Stroop

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 4
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Host Koki Mendis and guest Dr. Chrissy Stroop, peel back the layers of Christian dominionism, and explain how this ideology is deeply woven into the fabric of Christian homeschooling. Here, Dr. Stroop recounts her experiences in Christian schools…

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New Anti-Trans Promise

An Ohio state legislator may have leaked a new set of anti-trans “principles” endorsed by three major anti-LGBT organizations.
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Amid a spate of legislation in early 2021 targeting trans-affirming health care for youth and trans and gender nonconforming athletes, Ohio…

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Aberration of Common Sense

Anti-trans activists and the ramifications of the Bell v. Tavistock decision for transgender youth
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A high profile case holding that trans youth cannot obtain care in the United Kingdom will have rippling negative effects around the world. The Court’s …

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Brave New World

The legal landscape post-Bostock
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The recent decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, wherein the mostly-conservative Supreme Court voted 6-3 to protect LGBTQ employees against discrimination because of gender identity or sexual orientation, represents an abandonment of the as-written…

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A Room Of Their Own

How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy

Since 2016, anti-transgender feminist advocates in the US have used funding and fame from the Christian Right to undermine gains made towards justice for transgender people. After 40 years of activism, anti-trans feminists have now achieved greater…

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Betsy DeVos Is Complicit in Evangelical Right’s Assault on Trans Athletes

While the State of Connecticut inches past 40,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the anti-transgender Evangelical right-wing litigation machine presses onward. In mid-May, the anti-LGBT group …

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Gender Ideology Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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The fight against so-called “gender ideology” has well and truly arrived here in the United States, not only in venues like the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women—a common marketplace for anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion ideology—but in…

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The Struggle for LGBTQ Inclusion at Christian Colleges and Universities

A professor offers a prayer during a rally by the LGBTQ Christian community at Azusa Pacific University to show support after the school reinstated a ban on same-sex relationships, October 1, 2018. Credit: Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

When Gary Campbell enrolled in Baptist Bible College (now Clarks Summit University) in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, in 2001, he knew he was gay. He was among those students who, in an effort to repress their sexual orientation, choose the…

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Racism in Anti-Trans “Feminist” Activism

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It’s notable that anti-trans feminists are employing similar racist dog-whistles that have been used by the Right for centuries to create out-sized fear and outrage among their constituents and followers to justify the out-sized time and energy…

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Anti-LGBTQ media outlets peddle myths about autism and trans identity

The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), founded in 2002 in opposition to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) support for adoption by LGBTQ couples, was cited in one of several articles published by right-wing news outlets in late…

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National Anti-Transgender Organizations Bolster “No on Question 3” Campaign to Overturn Public Accommodations Protections in Massachusetts

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On November 6, Massachusetts voters will decide several ballot measures, including Question 3, which asks voters to overturn public accommodations protections in the Bay State based on gender identity.

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Proposed Federal Re-Definition of Sex Only Latest in Anti-Transgender Attacks from Right

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On October 21, The New York Times reported receiving information from the White House that details how the Trump Administration proposes to impose a multi-agency re-interpretation of “sex” under several civil rights laws to mean “[t]he sex listed on…

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Profile on the Right: The Heritage Foundation

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The Heritage Foundation is a right-wing think tank that claims to be “the most influential conservative group in America.” Its mission is to “formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited…

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Right-Wing Europe’s War on “Gender Ideology”

Demonstration against marriage equality in Strasbourg, France, February 2013.

Last March, on a cold, early spring afternoon in New York City, a bright orange tour bus wended its way from Trump Tower, down Second Avenue, eventually parking in front of the United Nations’ glass-walled Secretariat Building. Wrapped around the…

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The People’s Pope?

How the Vatican's Position on Gender Threatens Human Rights
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In September 2016, Sharon Slater of the U.S.-based Christian Right group Family Watch International issued a special appeal to a crowd of African conservatives, including Kenya’s Catholic Conference of Bishops, which was sponsoring the gathering.…

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The Right’s “Gender Ideology” Menace Rolls to Africa

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CitizenGO Africa recently announced that Nairobi, Kenya would be the first city on the continent to host the so-called #FreeSpeechBus. The bus, infamous for its explicitly anti-transgender messages, will likely roll through Nairobi in conjunction…

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“And yet” … Trans Existence in the Face of Religious Right Erasure

Twenty-five years ago, the Roman Catholic Church offered a rare acknowledgment of error. It admitted that it was wrong to have condemned one of the great fathers of modern science, Galileo Galilei. In 1632, Galileo was summoned to Rome and forced to…

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When Silence Equals Death

On Friday, December 15, the Washington Post reported that the Trump administration has prohibited the Center for Disease Control (CDC) from using the terms “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based,” and…

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The Meaning of the Nashville Line in the Sand

The hundreds of Southern Baptist and conservative Reformed leaders who initially signed the recent Nashville Statement, have always opposed all forms of sexuality and gender expressions outside of heterosexual marriage. But in the face of broad…

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Attacking Trans People in Defense of “Austerity"

On July 24, 2017, the Family Research Council (FRC), a right-wing political advocacy group based in Washington, DC, issued an Action Alert to its members, enlisting their support in denying healthcare to military personnel who are transgender. FRC…

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Seventeen Years of Tracking the World Congress of Families

PRA first reported on the World Congress of Families (WCF) in 2000, noting its role within the coalition of Christian Right groups that was beginning to emerge as a well-organized and influential force at the United Nations. Writing for The Public…

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Profile on the Right: Paul McHugh

Dr. Paul McHugh, professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University (and former director of the school’s Department of Psychiatry as well as the psychiatrist-in-chief at the Johns Hopkins Hospital), has positioned himself as a go-to source for…

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Profile on the Right: Alliance Defending Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is an international legal organization serving at the frontlines of the Christian Right’s effort to redefine religious freedom and insert its anti-LGBTQ, anti-choice agenda into every element of government and…

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The Christian Right on the Gender Frontier

The Growing Anti-Trans Offensive

In June 2014, TIME magazine declared that the U.S. had reached the “transgender tipping point” and was venturing toward trans inclusion as its next “civil rights frontier.” That month’s cover featured Laverne Cox, a Black transgender actress famous…

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The Christian Right’s Love Affair with Anti-Trans Feminists

In this current political moment of heightened anti-trans targeting, when school boards and legislatures across the country are debating whether or not transgender people should be allowed access to public facilities, one wedge of particular note…

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The Christian Right’s Favorite New Target

North Carolina Isn’t Alone
Protesters holding a banner that says Trans Solidarity against transphobia.

A slate of anti-LGBTQ laws and policies is sweeping across the country with transgender and gender-nonconforming people squarely in the crosshairs. While violence and oppression continue to wreak havoc on the lives and livelihoods of trans people,…

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Alliance Defending Freedom: the Right-Wing Lawyers Fueling Transphobia in Schools

Mixed with the systemic ingredients of anti-trans violence, which put trans women of color especially at the life-threatening nexus of white supremacy, heterosexism, and misogyny, is a cadre of Christian Right actors who are effectively fueling the…

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