Accidentally Public Documents Show Hate Group Asked Medical Hate Group To Invent Anti-Transgender Data

The SPLC’s Hatewatch reports:

Documents left public on a Google Drive by anti-LGBTQ+ hate group American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds), first reported by WIRED, reveal nearly a decade of coordination between ACPeds and another hate group, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), to shore up anti-trans policy efforts and legal arguments with bespoke research.

A new trove of internal documents from the American College of Pediatricians suggests ADF turned to the group known to traffic in anti-LGBTQ+ “junk science” to “substantiate” many of its anti-LGBTQ+ talking points and provide medical justification for interpreting Title IX to exclude gender-identity protections.

Together, the documents offer insight into how the groups manufactured legislative, legal and public relations challenges to medical science and public policy throughout the 2010s that have resulted in a rollback of abortion rights and nearly unprecedented restrictions on bodily autonomy in the U.S.

Read the full article. 

OOPS: Hate Group Accidentally Posts Financial Data – https://t.co/SiWj2Twlru pic.twitter.com/URInjgMgIU

— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) May 2, 2023