Evan Urquhart

One of the oldest ones I'm familiar with personally in the UK is the Trans Cabal thing. Julie Bindel has been pushing it since around 2005 (at least), and others have followed with similar afterwards.

The idea (much like "the gay agenda" not to mention numerous other conspiracy theories) is that some shadowy all powerful international organisation of trans people are busy pulling the strings of public policy for their own gain.

Another transphobic trope older than that even is of trans people as murderous perverts. The idea that trans people are fetishistic degenerates prone to violence goes back a long time but probably the most well known arena for this is in horror movies.

There are tangents on this in the claims that transgender women are using our access to women's toilets to steal used sanitary pads for fetishistic purposes. The idea is to associate us with filth, sexualised disgust and stigmas associated with mental illness.

Speaking of filth and sexualised disgust, the spectre of trans people as a threat to and grooming children is a very common one. The idea is that not only are we perverts and mutilators but that we recruit your children to be multilated and mutilate others https://twitter.com/FilthAlexis/status/1203713462028906497?s=19 …

Thanks to @2damntrans for signposting @christapeterso's thread on how many of the "secret powerful trans community" tropes are pilfering from an existing library of antisemitic discourse as much as they are from homophobia etc.https://twitter.com/christapeterso/status/1177665705128284160?s=19 …

To be clear, it's fine to discuss political funding. But if you use that discussion as a space for conspiratorial claims a secret lobby of trans people are controlling the government and suck institutions you are exercising transphobia.

I don't want to get into whether people are as individuals transphobic or not, it's actions and not some inner truth that hurts trans people.