The Anti-Pornography Movement’s Transphobia Comes Full Circle

I’ve long maintained the certitude that anti-pornography campaigners aligned with the far-right and conservative Christian movements are directly or indirectly transphobic and anti-LGBTQ. 

A body of evidence in my own reporting and experiences covering the rights of sex workers and the online pornography business has built out this schema of anti-LGBTQ and anti-pornography campaigners being tied at the hip in one form or another. One recent news item validates this.

As Mike Masnick summarized in a crucial Techdirt column a few days ago, the U.S. Department of Justice ordered the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to comply with GOP President Donald Trump’s Executive Order (EO) 14168 — his transphobic “gender ideology” directive blocking federal government agencies from even recognizing trans people.

Read the full post here.