1. Origen y Financiación de la Campaña Anti-Trans.
Los participantes en la conversación identifican el movimiento anti-trans como un fenómeno "obviamente inorgánico" y una estrategia política bien financiada. Se señala que la transfobia es utilizada como un arma del sistema, impulsada por grandes sumas de dinero provenientes de multimillonarios, organizaciones de derecha y grupos cristofascistas.
- Once again, i have to point out how obviously inorganic the entire anti-trans backlash is. A handful of billionaires are astroturfing the whole thing with enormous amounts of cash.
- Not just that but also a lot of astroturfing, paid propaganda. Transphobia is the weapon of the system and theyre flexing it as hard as theyll be allowed to.
- Transphobic astroturfing is literally a strategy by evangelicals to make homophobia fashionable again roll back gay rights by presenting one part of the queer community as evil freaks, then expanding the definition outward to encompass cis gay people again bring everything back to the 200s.
- I think the story isnt that liberal journalists intentionally astroturfed transphobia, its that transphobic hate groups spent years workshopping their astroturfing campaign prior to 2022, and liberal news outlets slurped that shit up. Theyre complicit, but not the primary actors.
2. Tácticas de División y Desinformación.
Una táctica central del astroturfing es la creación de infighting (luchas internas) y la división de la comunidad LGBTQ+. Esto se logra mediante el uso de cuentas falsas (sockpuppets) que pretenden ser personas trans o aliadas, pero que en realidad buscan "envenenar el pozo" y promover narrativas divisivas, como el transmedicalismo o la exclusión de la T del LGB.
- Yeah, at this point, i have to assume that a lot of this is astroturfing. Its sockpuppet accounts or people pretending to be trans people or to legitimately care who are actually just here to poison the well and cause infighting.
- If i wanted to be really uncharitable, id say its some form of astroturfing aiming to weaken a coordinated resistance to the anti-trans movement by inciting leftist infighting.
- Theyve been at it for a long time. For instance, they tried to turn every letter of the 2slgbtqia community against each other - lgb without the t - without the b biphobia - truscumtransmeds - enbyphobia - invalidating aces - glbt - lesbian terfs - detrans astroturfing - racism - ableism -.
- Theres astroturfing going on that hes anti-trans as well. Its a full court press.
3. Astroturfing como Estrategia Política y Cuña Social.
El astroturfing anti-trans es visto como una estrategia política deliberada para crear una "cuestión divisiva" (wedge issue) que distrae de otros problemas y permite a los políticos revertir derechos fundamentales. Se menciona que esta campaña ha sido particularmente efectiva en el Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, afectando la percepción pública sobre los derechos trans en un periodo relativamente corto.
- The anti-trans stuff is pure astroturfing for a wedge issue. In the us, it all began with only a handful of gop state legislators and consultants in 2019 who wanted to roll back medical, privacy, and child rights.
- Astroturfing anti-trans rhetoric encourages anti-non-het rhetoric as well as anti-healthcare rhetoric leading to coordinated attacks on each ea characteristic with the intention of overturning every law designed to protect our rights and safety.
- I bet you if you asked the average person about trans rights pre-covid, they wouldve been either indifferent or supportive on average. This whole anti-trans movement has always been the product of astroturfing.
- The steady astroturfing of transphobia has been surreal and nightmarish to watch over the past 15 years.