{"id":4303,"date":"2024-05-31T08:30:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T08:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/translash.org\/films\/seduction-of-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-the-anti-trans-hate-machine\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T21:18:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T21:18:43","slug":"seduction-of-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-the-anti-trans-hate-machine","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/translash.org\/films\/seduction-of-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-the-anti-trans-hate-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Seduction of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This short film is Episode 3 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine Animated Series, a companion to Season 2 of TransLash Media&#8217;s limited podcast series The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disinformation must spread in ways that are imperceptible and seemingly organic. Join us 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Anti-Trans Hate Machine Animated Series explains in easy to access videos how anti-trans pseudoscience and disinformation has become widely accepted as fact. From conversion therapy, to rapid onset gender dysphoria, to \u201cwatchful waiting,\u201d a vast network of Christian Nationalist organizations and bad-actors have used both rightwing and mainstream media to change the way an entire nation thinks about the validity of trans people.<\/p>\n\n\n<section\n    class=\"wp-block-accordion text-container my-7.5\"\n  >\n    \n          <div>\n                  <div \n  class=\"border-l-2 border-black my-2 bg-grey-1\" \n      x-id=\"['accordion-inner', 'accordion-control']\"\n    x-data=\"{ expanded: false }\"\n  >\n      <h2 class=\"eyebrow font-bold\">\n      <button\n                  :id=\"$id('accordion-control')\" \n          x-on:click=\"expanded = ! expanded\" \n          :aria-expanded=\"expanded\" \n          :aria-controls=\"$id('accordion-inner')\" \n         \n        role=\"button\" \n        class=\"w-full p-4.5 text-left\"\n      >\n        <div \n          class=\"flex gap-4 justify-start items-center\"\n        >\n          <div \n                          :class=\"expanded ? 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It has spread far and wide, even to mainstream and supposedly non-biased platforms like The Atlantic magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is it\u2019s based on highly biased research.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now this idea of social contagion has become a vital piece of right wing propaganda and popularized by writers like Jesse Singal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organizations that are apart of the anti-trans hate machine ran focus groups to see the best way to attack the idea of trans people overall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They landed, spreading the belief that trans youth coming out is some sort of a social contagion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And now this disinformation has transformed into conventional wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>              <\/div>\n      <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short film is Episode 3 of The Anti-Trans Hate Machine Animated Series, a companion to Season 2 of TransLash Media&#8217;s limited podcast series The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality. 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Join us for a deep dive into the massive influence of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/translash.org\/films\/seduction-of-rapid-onset-gender-dysphoria-the-anti-trans-hate-machine\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4755,"template":"","project":[94],"topic":[],"film-series":[97],"class_list":["post-4303","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","project-the-anti-trans-hate-machine","film-series-the-anti-trans-hate-machine"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Debunking the Anti-Trans Hate Machine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Debunk the concept of rapid-onset gender dysphoria and its role in anti-trans narratives.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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