Thread by @JolyonMaugham

I see yet another vast, and vastly expensive, piece of anti-trans infrastructure has sprung up virtually overnight with zero transparency as to where the money came from.

Worth reading the brilliant 'Empire of Pain' to understand the playbook. Fake grass-roots 'authenticity', money to amplify crank science and outlier voices, pushed in compliant media, bullshit pseudo-official 'institutes', co-ordinated social media campaigns. All so familiar.

I also feel sorry for the satirists.

There's no shortage of evidence of deep pools of dark money for anti-trans campaigns. There's this epfweb.org/node/837 and this ohchr.org/Documents/Issu… and this globalphilanthropyproject.org/wp-content/upl… just for starters.