Episode 13: Team America- Terf Police

Our premise for this episode is pretty simple: Rapidly proliferating transphobia in the USA is about to explode. All the reactionaries, from the cable news talking heads down to Qanon diehards, are searching for new horrid fascist narratives, and its pretty clear that one of the big ones is Trans Panic. Theyre trying to adapt in the post-trump era, and find profitable new battles to fight and we think that people need to act fast to counter this.

This recent shift hasnt gone unnoticed: a fair few leftist, LGBT or antifascist commentators have already remarked upon it. However, as in Britain, US based leftist organisations, including much of the antifascist movement, havent responded much. If youre in such a group, you need to ( in our opinion) put the pedal to the metal and begin mobilising against this rapidly. If patterns play out in the states like they did here in the UK, the religious right and their street fascist allies will use transphobia to make inroads into civic life in ways that will be hard to counter if not stopped fast.

 

This episode covers a lot of ground that regular listeners to the show will know already so if youre a regular then you might find a lot of this familiar: in many ways its a truncation of our normal content. we thought that itd be good to have a sort of "ABC's" episode for the purpose of turning peoples attention to the specific organisational requirements at hand.

 

We've recorded this as a sort of introductory/propaganda piece, so if youre already on side  please share it, particulary to anyone you know who lives in the states, and most particularly if they are already in, or are thinking of joining, a leftist or antifascist organisation.

 

No major content warnings for this episode other than the general subject matter of transphobia, conspiracy theories, cults etc

 

music for this episode was by Molly Noise