Hey, fam, it's Amara.

I'm so excited to bring you a new episode of season two of the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality.

We're unpacking how the anti-trans disinformation ecosystem was both created

and weaponized. You can binge listen the first three episodes by subscribing right now to the

anti-trans hate machine wherever you get your podcast.

A heads up to listeners.

This episode contains potentially uncomfortable references to psychological harm and also the sexualization of children.

Please do what you need to do to take care of yourself and anyone else listening.

A trans person under the right conditions, especially if they're in a volunteer, to take care of yourself and anyone else listening.

A trans person under the right conditions, especially if they're in a vulnerable space,

like can come to believe that their transition was this like horrible, horrible, damaging thing and feel like they have to like go out and share their story and stop other people

from doing it.

And now I look back and was like, that wasn't true.

Like my transition did not ruin my life.

It didn't hurt me.

But believing that caused me immense suffering.

And I regret like, you know, going out there and, you know, spreading what I now see as, like, misinformation

about, you know, transition and promoting what I now see as conversion practices.

You know, I was calling it alternative treatments for gender dysphoria.

But now I'm like, no, that was just, like, anti-trans conversion practices.

I'm Amara Jones, and this is the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality.

In our last episode, we learned how the gears of this machine kept conversion therapy going in the United States,

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