Trans Panic, Anti-Gender Mobilisations, and the Far Right

Abstract

Agitation against trans people has become a central point of mobilization and normalization for the far right. This panel introduces a book project that examines this opposition as a form of trans panic. The concept emphasizes the panic-like characteristics of current mobilizations. Originally, the term was used in a legal defense to justify the murder of trans women upon the revelation of their transness. It has since been broadened to encompass a wider socio-political context, linking anti-trans mobilization to a defense of an allegedly threatened gender order and violence. Our understanding of trans panic seeks to highlight both the structural and historical aspects of transphobia, as well as the ways it is politicized and used for reactionary purposes. This panel brings together scholars investigating different facets of anti-gender mobilization, with a focus on trans panic propagated by the far right. The papers are part of an edited volume (Routledge) and cover the issue from a variety of angles. We contribute a historical and theoretical framework that accounts for the roots of anti-trans mobilization and analyze agitation mediated by social media platforms in Germany and the US. We examine a broad range of actors and geographies, from “gender-critical” women activists in the UK, to far-right parties in Germany, and transnational alliances between religious politics in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile.

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Trans Panic, Anti-Gender Mobilisations, and the Far Right	View Paper Details
Rage-Bait: Mapping Online Far-Right Anti-Trans Rhetoric in the United States	View Paper Details
Gender Ideology, Religious Conservatism, and the Transnational Dynamics of Anti-Gender Mobilization in Latin American Comparison	View Paper Details
Strategic Antigenderism on the Far Right: Homonationalism, Trans Panic, and Cis-Heteronormative ‘Pride Month’ in Germany	View Paper Details
‘Answering Lady Britannia's Call: The Street, Visual and Media Tactics of the British Anti-Trans/Queer Far-Right’	View Paper Details