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What transphobia sounded like in 2010

Book cover for HOW EVIL WORKS by David Kupelian

‘How Evil Works’ (2010) by the editor of WorldNetDaily. In discussing racism, antisemitism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia, the author of course purports not to perpetuate them, but he very much does.

Classic transphobia — since 1981

Comparison of the back cover text "is the gender system a threat to human survival" and the imprint of "Gay Men's Press." Circles and arrows highlight the terms "the gender system" and "men's."

Classic anti-trans arguments in ‘The Spiral Path’ by David Fernbach. Trans people have genders, but we don’t uphold, benefit from, or depend on the gender system any more than cis people do. That’s transphobic disinformation.

Transphobia since the 1970s

modern sculpture of head with a wreath

Janice Raymond’s ‘The Transsexual Empire’. It’s a transphobia classic. We can look at its irrationality and spot its repetition in today’s transphobia. Today’s transphobia isn’t new.