One of the campaign ads used in the 2024 presidential elections was: “Kamala Harris is for they/them. President Trump is for you”.1 The slogan both taps into the transphobia promoted by the political right in the “culture wars” and appeals… Continue Reading
A review of Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment, Agnieszka Graff and Elżbieta Korolczuk (Routledge, 2021), £120 The need to understand how and why the populist far right has been so successful has never been more urgent. The victories for… Continue Reading
In recent years, trans rights have become a major element of the so-called “culture wars” and the “war on woke” being waged by the right around the world.1 This has gone hand in hand with attacks on analyses of organisations… Continue Reading
In August 2017 Donald Trump tweeted that transgender people1 were no longer welcome in the military because they are a “burden” due to “tremendous medical costs and disruption”.2 This was the latest in a series of attacks on transgender people… Continue Reading