The Worst Transphobic Words I’ve Seen (This Week)

…were also antisemitic.

Transphobia intersects with other kinds of hate and persecution. Homophobia. Sexism. Racism, including anti-Blackness. Colonialism. Religious crusades. The list could go on.

They’re all important, and it’s important to learn to see all those connections.

Right now, in the following paragraphs, I want to focus on the intersection of transphobia and antisemitism because an especially heinous example popped up online this week.

I’m sharing the example here, not because I delight in sharing terrible things, but because this particular statement so clearly and concisely reveals the overlap between these two arch-conspiracy theories.

If you’re already aware of the overlap, you don’t need to read this article. You can read something else LGBTQ-related written by someone else.

This is a nasty one, so I’m pasting the image “below the fold,” to use the old newspaper metaphor. I’ve deliberately given a long introduction to extend the visual space and give you an opportunity to back out. If you aren’t prepared to see a very bad five-sentence comment, don’t unfold the newspaper.

Newspaper by PublicDomainPictures from Pixabay

This Is What Antisemitism–Transphobia Looks Like

This was posted on 4chan, an anonymous, high-traffic online discussion board that’s especially popular in the US. I was alerted to it by vigilant friendlies. I’m not linking to it so as not to feed the link back into the hungry internet, but I have seen it with my own eyes, and I took this screenshot.

To start with, it’s obviously false. Just to tag these five sentences quickly:

1. No, trans people don’t have structural power.
2. No, still less are we the most powerful Minority of All Minorities. No one in power is reliably able to protect trans people’s basic needs, which include being called by our own names, having accurate identity documents, and accessing healthcare. By the Washington Post’s count, in the United States, one hundred…