TransLash Presents: Seduction of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Disinformation must spread in ways that are imperceptible and seemingly organic. Join us for Episode 3 of Season 2 of the Anti-Trans Hate Machine for a deep dive into the massive influence of the fringe blog 4th Wave Now, where parents who are hostile to their trans kids gather to spread conspiracy theories about the origins of gender identity. It’s influenced liberal parents like Jeanne Ogden, who used ideas in the blog to help justify blocking her daughter Cam from receiving the care she needs. Learn how Jeanne and Cam are working to pick up the pieces, after being manipulated by this disinformation. And how, despite the harm, journalists like Jesse Singal grabbed the idea of trans social contagion and ran with it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, it's Amara. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm so excited to bring you a new episode of season two of the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality. |
| 0:18.0 | We're unpacking how the anti-trans disinformation ecosystem was both created |
| 0:22.6 | and weaponized. You can binge listen the first three episodes by subscribing right now to the |
| 0:28.9 | anti-trans hate machine wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:39.4 | Heads up to listeners. |
| 0:42.8 | This episode contains themes of self-harm. |
| 0:48.4 | Please do what you need to do to take care of yourself and anyone else listening. |
| 0:57.0 | In 2014, a mother named Denise Kadon sent an email to two detransitioners. |
| 1:02.5 | Denise told them that she was the parent of a kid who claimed to be trans. |
| 1:05.9 | Denise was convinced that her kid had been brainwashed. |
| 1:14.2 | Denise wanted to know how, and she thought that the detransitioners might say something that established doctors wouldn't because a small number of detransitioners see themselves as being ex-trans. |
| 1:20.2 | So Denise and the detransitioners exchanged a few messages, but for whatever reason, Denise wasn't |
| 1:26.3 | satisfied. |
| 1:31.3 | To fend her frustration about the very existence of trans kids, she started a WordPress blog and hoped that others would listen. |
| 1:39.3 | They did. |
| 1:47.3 | Denise named her blog Fourth Wave Now, and it became a pivotal engine of the anti-trans hate machine. |
| 1:58.8 | I'm Amara Jones, and this is the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality. |
| 2:05.7 | Today we're going to tell you the story, a fourth wave now. |
| 2:09.7 | Although not a household name, it's been a critical force in the anti-trans movement, |
| 2:14.5 | specifically the sweeping attacks on trans kids. |
| 2:18.6 | It's where parents who are hostile to their trans children gather to find ways to support |
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