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Anti-trans rhetoric, traced to its sources
A research library on anti-trans rhetoric: the talking points, where they come from, who spreads them and why, and how often they appear online. Every claim traces to a source that was read on the original page, and every measurement says how it was taken.
The library
What we know so far
Four numbers from the library, each with its source. Origins has the full picture.
What none of these show: no source we have checked measures what share of anti-trans rhetoric online is foreign or automated. Claims that it is "mostly bots" or "mostly Russian" are not supported by anything here.
How this library works
Checked sources only
A claim is cited only after its source was read on the original page. Anything seen only in a summary is marked unverified.
Claims are claims
"Bot", "coordinated" or "foreign" is reported as what a named source found, never as our own finding unless we measured it.
Public figures only
Only public figures and organisations are named, for what a source documents them saying or doing. No ordinary users.
Numbers say what they can't show
A count of a phrase includes people quoting it to object. Unknown values are shown as —, never guessed.
Beth's Anti-Transphobia Library
Beth's Anti-Transphobia Library catalogues gender-critical arguments, their code words and rebuttals, and is the better place for a rebuttal to a specific argument. This library does not copy it. It links to Beth's pages where they cover a point, and adds what Beth's does not focus on: measurements of how often the rhetoric appears, and documentation of where it comes from, including organised and foreign influence campaigns.
Where this started
The library grew in October 2026 out of research for the Bot Traffic Monitor, which tracks political activity online and added anti-trans searches on Twitter.