"Kant also noted that right-leaning publications produce far more articles on trans people than the mainstream media. "Our annihilation has become a central organizing principle of the Republican Party," Kant wrote in her analysis, which used her research to unpack how the right "manufactured the illusion of a dangerous all-powerful enemy out of a tiny demographic with no political influence, financial resources, nor social capital.""
""While the post-mortem of the 2024 election endlessly cited the 'Kamala is for they/them' attack ad as the tipping point," she explained. "This elides the fact that even if this were said tipping point, it was only because not a single day passed from 2023 onward where Americans weren't bombarded with articles about trans people that were at best negatively-valenced, at worst outright libel and incitement.""
Fox News publishes more articles about trans people than any other U.S. media outlet, surpassing LGBTQ+ publications and mainstream competitors. Right-leaning outlets overall generate far more trans-focused coverage than the mainstream press. The anti-trans movement has crafted a campaign of misleading, fearmongering, and false stories that cast a small, politically marginal demographic as an all-powerful, dangerous enemy. That campaign functions as an "outrage factory" supplying daily negative and often libelous narratives. Since 2023 Fox News has produced more trans articles than days in the year, saturating the public sphere with negatively valenced coverage that amplified specific political attacks during 2024.
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