Combating Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience
Helping navigate the perils of anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience by analyzing the groups and actors using the language of science to attack the medical consensus supporting LGBTQ+ affirming health care and resources to counter anti-trans narratives and extremism.
Resources
- Conversion Therapy: Fact over fiction
- LGBTQ+ health care buzzwords
- Common myths about puberty blockers
- ‘Sterilization’ rhetoric and trans kids
- Conservative religion & anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience
- Timeline: Brief history of anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network
- Case Study: The Pseudoscience Network in Action in Virginia
- Download: Social activist toolkit
Contributors
R.G. Cravens, Ph.D., Editor; Quinnehtukqut McLamore, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Missouri at Columbia; Lee Leveille, Co-Developer of Health Liberation Now!; Emerson Hodges; Sophie Wunderlich; and Lydia Bates.
Illustration by Andrei Cojocaru
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Proliferation of Pseudoscience
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Network Foundations
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Pseudoscience and Politics
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Generation of Disinformation
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Dynamics within Network
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The Future of the Movement