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A Hatewatch review of internet chatter, social media posts and recent news events shows hate groups ramping up their efforts to demonize the transgender community, going as far as calling for the deaths of trans people.

The harassment of transgender people and their allies has been especially pronounced during Pride month, celebrated in June. For example, at Detroit鈥檚 Motor City Pride event June 8, about a dozen members of the National Socialist Movement raised a swastika flag, tore apart a rainbow flag and yelled, 鈥渇---聽you f------鈥� and 鈥淛ews will not replace us.鈥� And in Orlando, the New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement聽held a 鈥淢ake America Straight Again鈥� conference with some speakers calling for the government to kill members of the 人兽性交 community, which includes transgender people.

In June, Dallas police announced it was launching a probe 聽of transgender women. The announcement came weeks after the fatal shooting of a transgender woman in that Texas city. The (HRC) calls overall violence against transgender people a crisis of epidemic proportions.

鈥淭he epidemic of violence targeting transgender people, particularly Black transgender women, is an urgent crisis,鈥� Sarah McBride, national press secretary of HRC, told Hatewatch. 鈥淭he toxic mix of transphobia, misogyny and racism often has fatal consequences. The combination of those prejudices 鈥� both individually and systemically 鈥� don鈥檛 just add upon one another, they multiply one another.鈥�

Online channels make it easy for the purveyors of hate to spread their message.

White nationalist and former U.S. Congressional candidate Paul Nehlen聽announced on June 19 a plan he called 鈥淧ROJECT DOX T-----聽STORYTIME.鈥� He urged his nearly 400 followers: 鈥淕et photos of all the degenerate parents who take their kids to this filth. Get their license plates, anything else you can.鈥�

Nehlen uses the messaging app Telegram, a platform favored by white nationalists and terrorists.

Nehlen鈥檚 target is a nationwide program called , where drag queens read to kids at local libraries and bookstores. The , in addition to children鈥檚 classics, feature books that cover such topics as gender expression and family diversity.

Events like the story hour have become a big draw for far-right extremists who are increasingly intent upon invoking violent, or harassing, solutions for what they deem 鈥渄egeneracy.鈥� At the 鈥淢ake America Straight鈥� conference, speakers made their definition of "degeneracy" clear when they聽demonized 人兽性交 people聽as "sodomites" and smeared them as pedophiles聽who will stop at nothing to attack children.

Transphobia has long been an animating force within the white nationalist movement, but the tenor of that hatred has changed due to two converging factors. White power activists are increasingly embracing violent language and actions as political tools at the same time the transgender rights movement is more active than ever.

For example, a recent survey shows that more than six in 10 Americans have become . Furthermore, seven out of 10 Americans believe transgender people聽should be able .

Nehlen regularly praises people like Robert Bowers. Bowers faces 63 criminal counts in connection with a shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a frequent guest on white nationalist podcasts, Nehlen encourages like-minded men to commit violent acts. 鈥淭hey stepped up to do something and we ought to celebrate them,鈥� he said of Bowers and mass killers Dylann Roof and Anders Breivik on an April episode of 鈥淭he Gas Station鈥� podcast.

At a June 15 Drag Queen Story Hour , some 400 people stood in support of the event while another 200 came to protest. There was a large law enforcement presence, including officers with sniper rifles stationed on a rooftop.

Nehlen responded: 鈥淵ou motherf------ remember it was YOU who escalated this T----- shit with SNIPERS. My guess is, when all is said and DONE, there will be a minimum of 100 FEWER state-payrolled uniformed employees for every T----- protesting mom shot by your snipers.鈥�

鈥淪hoot wisely, ZOG pigs,鈥� he wrote on Telegram, calling for violence with an antisemitic slur.

For far-right extremists, the increased visibility of transgender people is a sign of the growing 鈥渄egeneracy鈥� of the nation, wrought by 鈥渃ultural Marxists,鈥� leftists and Jews as part of an assault on white, Christian families and strict gender roles. They believe that trans people, like immigrants and non-whites, are hastening the destruction of an idealized white, Western culture.

Nehlen is not alone in advocating doxing of Drag Queen Story attendees. An anonymous administrator created a Telegram channel for that purpose with posts that drew more than 1,000 views in less than a week.

鈥淗ere鈥檚 a list of locations these degenerates will be if you鈥檙e interested,鈥� the administrator wrote. They encouraged people to contact the employers of parents who brought their kids to the drag queen events, post their names in local Facebook groups and publicly post their information 鈥渁nywhere you can think of shaming these folks.鈥�

鈥淭hose who promote Drag Kids deserve absolute f------聽death,鈥� another user wrote in a post viewed more than 700 times in the three days since it posted. 鈥淎nyone online who has ever said a word of support of this deserves to be hung drawn and quartered.鈥�

Drag Queen Story Hours have drawn the attention of such groups as the white nationalist American Identity Movement听(础滨惭, formerly known as Identity Evropa). In April, two of its members disrupted a story hour event in New Orleans dressed as clowns (in part, a reference to the 鈥溾�� clown character adopted by white nationalists). They held a banner reading 鈥淎dult entertainment for kids! | Welcome to clown world | Honk Honk鈥� as they stood in the library in front of confused patrons.

It鈥檚 not just white nationalists who have become more vocally transphobic.

Many on the far right argue that the transgender rights movement is a sign of out-of-control political correctness, not as a fight for equality. It鈥檚 an opinion shared with members of the so-called Intellectual Dark Web, a collective of academics and commentators joined in their opposition to progressive politics.

That includes Canadian professor . Popular among the racist 鈥渁lt-right,鈥� Peterson first gained media attention in 2016 when he refused to refer to some University of Toronto students and faculty by their preferred gender pronouns.

鈥淚鈥檝e studied authoritarianism for a very long time 鈥� for 40 years 鈥� and they鈥檙e started by people鈥檚 attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory,鈥� Peterson . 鈥淭here's no way I'm going to use words made up by people who are doing that 鈥� not a chance."

Members of the far right and overt white nationalists have both cheered on the Trump administration鈥檚 rollback of transgender rights. The administration has effectively banned transgender people from serving in the military, 聽that would allow homeless shelters to turn people away based on their gender identity and 聽protecting transgender people from discrimination when seeking health care.

鈥淲e are protecting the social order. We are protecting the nation,鈥� Daily Stormer editor Andrew Anglin听飞谤辞迟别 聽in a supportive response to President Trump鈥檚 policies related to transgender people. 鈥淪omebody has to stop these sick f------.鈥�

Violence against transgender people is also on the rise. The problem is so acute the American Medical Association 聽the violence against transgender people an 鈥渆pidemic.鈥�

According to the HRC, at least 10 trans women have been killed in the United States this year and, in 2018, 26 transgender people were murdered. The majority of the victims were black transgender women.

Extremists are openly calling for violence against transgender people.

鈥淎ssisted suicide is the only help you can give t-------,鈥� neo-Nazi and 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� veteran Christopher Cantwell听飞谤辞迟别 on Telegram earlier this month.

On the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer on June 20, the pseudonymous contributor Roy Batty said that transgender people should be forced 鈥渢o wear some kind of symbol on their clothing so that people can tell them apart.鈥�

鈥淪o many potential murder cases could be avoided if these t------- could just be reasonable and wear the black triangle,鈥� he wrote, in effect blaming transgender women for their own murders if they had garnered the sexual interest of transphobic men.

In another post on his site from late last year, Anglin actively encouraged transgender people to commit suicide:

Listen up t------- 鈥� there is only one good thing you can do with your lives, and that鈥檚 end them as quickly as possible鈥�. So as long as you exist, you鈥檒l not only be miserable yourselves, but you鈥檒l make everybody around you miserable and generally degrade society even further than it already is, all at the behest of (((people))) who I can assure you hate you as much as I do. Suicide is the only logical thing to do, and the only way you鈥檒l ever get peace. DO IT!!!

The post ended with a gif of an anime character hanging themself.

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