Given the aggressively queerphobic language I’ve read on Gab, events like this are worrying but not surprising. More worrying is the way that this queerphobic language is increasingly used in the mainstream GOP. How do Republican politicians and voters feel about these events?

Thanks to a recommendation from BoingBoing, I just finished reading a Business Insider article describing a recent video in which Marjorie Taylor Greene:

predicted that identifying as heterosexual will be a thing of the past within a period of less than 200 years thanks to LGBTQ-inclusive sex educators, who she called “trans terrorists.”

More specifically, Greene was quoted as saying that heterosexual extinction would come about “probably in about four or five generations.” Referrring to “generations” in the context of a purported heterosexual extinction felt familiar to me. In fact, as horribly queerphobic as Greene’s message was, she was actually more optimistic than Latter-day Saint General Authorities have been in the past.

Tom the Dancing Bug is usually just the right level of dark.

Love this.

Seems to me that folks truly concerned about the integrity of women’s sports would have more to say about this.

This matches rhetoric I’m reading while doing research on Gab. We need respectable conservative movements in the U.S., but our contemporary mainstream right is flirting with these ideas instead of denouncing them. It’s troubling

Worries about this picking up. General Assembly took steps in a bad direction this session, but they could go further next time.

I have spent a few hours this week reading violently anti-trans posts as part of a research project. My patience for queerphobic dog whistles disguised as feigned concerns about girls’ sports is at zero. So disappointed in the Kentucky legislature.

I bike past this house and its flags every day; seeing them is always a boost. How upsetting that people would want to burn one.

Greene is repeatedly awful, and the GOP’s refusal to do anything substantial about it is telling.

Shut up and take my money! This is why itch is one of my favorite game-related places on the internet.

Kentucky has taken some bad steps in this direction lately, but this is horrific.

Disappointed to see more legislation like this under consideration.

Just explained something I learned from studying far right spaces in Mormon social media to collaborators on a project studying queer spaces in far right social media, which is not an experience I expected when starting grad school in ed tech.

Good news for Lexington! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

This is frustrating and sad.