TransLash Presents: A Voice for Anti-Trans, Mass Media
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Various parts of the right wing disinformation machine effectively work in tandem to elevate junk science and platform people spreading anti-trans hate. In this episode, Imara takes a deep dive into the inner workings of this world by following the rise of Abigail Shrier, a woman who rose quickly from obscurity to become a so-called expert spreading the myth of social contagion. We'll explore how she packaged these concepts in ways that was ready made for Christian Nationalist media, especially Fox News. And how they were accompanied by a mainstream appeal that’s had a devastating impact on parents and kids.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, it's Amara. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm so excited to bring you a new episode of Season 2 of the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality. |
| 0:16.8 | With two new shows about the New York Times and right-wing media, |
| 0:21.3 | we're unpacking how the anti-trans disinformation ecosystem was both created and weaponized. |
| 0:27.6 | You can binge listen to the season by subscribing right now to the anti-trans hate machine |
| 0:32.6 | wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:44.8 | If you regularly turn on the news, |
| 0:48.6 | tune into a topical podcast or read a national paper, |
| 0:52.4 | you've certainly been exposed to fear-mongering about trans youth. |
| 0:55.9 | It's inescapable, and it's just getting louder. |
| 1:00.2 | And if you're a parent and you're not aware that this is happening to your kid while your kids at school, like, what are we doing to children? Is this been vetted? |
| 1:04.0 | What do Americans need to know right now about the power of some of these state governments |
| 1:09.3 | to take kids away from parents or undermine |
| 1:12.9 | their values. |
| 1:13.8 | These numbers are kind of astounding, but they don't suggest a natural cause, a born-that-way |
| 1:19.1 | cause. |
| 1:19.5 | They suggest a social influence cause. |
| 1:22.6 | Now, these ideas didn't just fall from the sky and into the mouths of Fox News host and conspiracy theory podcasts. |
| 1:32.4 | Anti-trans rhetoric takes up so much space in the right-wing media because of a deliberate process. |
| 1:38.9 | In this episode, we will show how trans disinformation made its way from obscure corners of the internet to the most |
| 1:46.2 | dangerous voices in Christian nationalist media. |
| 1:49.8 | This is a story of just how much damage a single person can cause. |
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