Transtrender Google search results screenshot (October 16, 2020) Transtrender It should go without saying but we will say it: People should not be subjected to dehumanizing attacks on their bodies and identities. Posted by the YouTube account, "Wake Up Before Christ Comes," the 27-minute video entitled, “TRANSVESTIGATION of MADONNA - Undeniable PROOF!!! "SHE" is a MAN!” offers a faux-scientific analysis of the pop star’s anatomy which serves as a vehicle for a lengthy diatribe of dehumanizing anti-trans tropes and rhetoric. The concept is especially widespread on YouTube. Content related to this form of anti-transgender hate runs rampant across all social media platforms, from a Pinterest board with 2.64K followers, to crowd-sourced Facebook groups, to hashtagged tweets (like this one of Melania Trump) and hashtagged Instagram posts (like this vicious attack on Vice President Kamala Harris). This is a notable example of how anti-LGBTQ hate actually impacts everyone - the targets of the harassment are cis celebrities. The examples below include hateful terms, phrases and imagery.įrom Madonna to Mike Tyson to Melania Trump, this hate-driven conspiracy theory emerged in early 2017 and asserts that certain celebrities are transgender and then “investigates” by offering fake pseudo-scientific “evidence” to prove the assertion (as in the above example, from the YouTube account mentioned below, attempting to prove that Madonna’s body-type is male). Transvestigation Google search results screenshot (March 23, 2021) and LGBTP Google search results screenshot (May 5, 2021) Anti-LGBTQ Online Hate Speech Examples *CONTENT WARNING* By contrast, see the screenshot below of search results for hate speech that has not been debunked, to see how a person searching these terms may come away with the sense that they are legitimate concepts rather than misinformation and hate.
One of the further benefits of such fact-checking is that these terms can also be “pre-bunked” in search engine results, so that a person searching on the word or phrase will see debunking analysis in those results (see the screenshot below of “LGBTP” which has been debunked by numerous fact-checking sites), rather than raw, uncontextualized information about a given term. Some of these terms and concepts have received attention from fact-checking sites and other watchdog organizations that have shared public research to debunk and clearly identify them as hate-driven content or conduct.
#Hate speech update#
GLAAD will update this listing on an ongoing basis and will convey new items to the platforms for consideration as they arise. Given the widespread use of the items below to attack and harass LGBTQ people, social media platforms should update their algorithms to flag them for removal, as they do with other content and conduct that conflicts with their policies on hate speech. Recommendations for how social media can utilize the Listing, as well as explanations on the urgent need for this resource, are available in the GLAAD Social Media Safety Index. Some deeper perspectives on hate speech include the Social Science Research Council’s “Hate-Speech Intensity Scale” and the work of the Dangerous Speech Project. This new project highlights the agendas and debunks the ideas behind malicious anti-LGBTQ content, and is a resource for social media platforms to identify and remove such content and conduct. The GLAAD Listing of Anti-LGBTQ Online Hate Speech is an ongoing project to identify selected language and memes that are used to harass, attack, and spread misinformation about LGBTQ people on social media. Hate speech causes very real harm to LGBTQ people, and to society as a whole.
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