At the time the emails were written, the anti-trans lobby was somewhat underground; anti-trans hate wasn’t new, but the people pushing for anti-trans policymaking, including members of the American College of Pediatricians, classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, didn’t have the mainstream momentum they have today. That’s perhaps one of the biggest takeaways from the emails, experts say.

So many buzzwords in one paragraph! What “experts”? How many times has the SPLC been successfully sued for defamation now? Define anti-trans.

“That’s what’s actually most striking: There is some sense of, ‘Oh, we have to be careful of what we say publicly,’” Chase Strangio, the Deputy Director for transgender justice with the American Civil Liberties Union, told VICE News. “None of that is present in 2023. By 2023, speaking hatefully publicly about trans people is totally and completely normalized.”

You mean like every single “progressive” push? Now do “we just want to get married, we’re not coming for your kids”

They also reveal the deeply evangelical bent of the anti-trans movement. The emails are littered with false claims about trans people, including claims that show the group believes they’re doing God’s work by targeting a vulnerable minority group. . One person used the term “perpetrators,” presumably to refer to trans people or parents who support their trans kids. Several equated transgender identity to “severe mental illness.” Notably, they were already sharing fringe media equating drag queen story hours to “grooming”—a narrative that’s playing out all over the country right now as more states consider banning drag altogether. The team of people in the emails also repeatedly reduced trans existence by referring to it as “ideology.”

No, “perpetrators” would be the medical complex using these kids for lifelong customers. It is a severe mental illness. It was and is grooming. If trans “existence” is so static then why the rate of post op suicide, regret, and detransitioning?