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| | **It's Basic Biology!** | "You have balls, you're not a woman." | "Their brain is smaller. Basic biology proves they're inferior." | "Women's brains are smaller and their wombs make them hysterical. Basic biology proves they can't vote or work." | Nazi "racial science" claimed Jews were biologically inferior and a biological threat to the Aryan race. | "Penis goes with vagina. Basic biology proves homosexuality is unnatural." | Biological essentialism is repeatedly used to deny personhood and rights. | | | **It's Basic Biology!** | "You have balls, you're not a woman." | "Their brain is smaller. Basic biology proves they're inferior." | "Women's brains are smaller and their wombs make them hysterical. Basic biology proves they can't vote or work." | Nazi "racial science" claimed Jews were biologically inferior and a biological threat to the Aryan race. | "Penis goes with vagina. Basic biology proves homosexuality is unnatural." | Biological essentialism is repeatedly used to deny personhood and rights. | |
| | **They're Dangerous to Our Spaces!** | "Trans people in bathrooms are a threat." | "We can't have them in our pools, restaurants, or schools—they're dangerous." | "Women in the workplace will distract men and destroy productivity!" | "Jews contaminate our pools, restaurants, public spaces." | "Gay teachers will molest our children in schools!" | Pose the targeted group as an existential threat to society. Fear of contamination and danger is projected onto marginalized groups to exclude them from public life. | | | **They're Dangerous to Our Spaces!** | "Trans people in bathrooms are a threat." | "We can't have them in our pools, restaurants, or schools—they're dangerous." | "Women in the workplace will distract men and destroy productivity!" | "Jews contaminate our pools, restaurants, public spaces." | "Gay teachers will molest our children in schools!" | Pose the targeted group as an existential threat to society. Fear of contamination and danger is projected onto marginalized groups to exclude them from public life. | |
| | **It's Mental Illness/Delusion!** | "Trans people are deluded, not based in reality." and/or "Sexual lobotomy" "They cannot perceive their own bodies correctly." Pathologized as mentally ill requiring "treatment" or "correction." | "Drapetomania"- the mental illness that made slaves want to escape." | "Hysteria"- the mental illness of women who wanted rights." and/or "mentally unfit to make an informed and rational decision." | The Jewish identity itself was pathologized as a mental/moral sickness.| "Homosexuality was classified as a mental illness/disorder." | Asserting autonomy or identity outside the established norm is pathologized to justify control and exclusion coupled with an entrenchment of stigma.| | | **It's Mental Illness/Delusion!/They were abused children** | "Trans people are deluded, not based in reality." and/or "Sexual lobotomy" "They cannot perceive their own bodies correctly." Pathologized as mentally ill/result of abuse requiring "treatment" or "correction." | "Drapetomania"- the mental illness that made slaves want to escape." | "Hysteria"- the mental illness of women who wanted rights." and/or "mentally unfit to make an informed and rational decision." | The Jewish identity itself was pathologized as a mental/moral sickness.| "Homosexuality was classified as a mental illness/disorder, often as a result of abuse." | Asserting autonomy or identity outside the established norm is pathologized to justify control and exclusion coupled with an entrenchment of stigma. Using claims of abuse to blame trauma, or the perpetrators of said abuse, for the behavior which is classified as deviant or as a coping mechanism| |
| | **They're Inherently Violent!** | Cherry-picks crimes by trans individuals as proof of inherent violence. | "Birth of a Nation" portrayed Black men as violent rapists." | Suffragettes portrayed as violent terrorists. |"Birth of a Nation" also portrayed Jews as violent terrorists and rapists.| Portrayed as predators and criminals. | Isolated incidents are weaponized to paint entire groups as dangerous. | | | **They're Inherently Violent!** | Cherry-picks crimes by trans individuals as proof of inherent violence. | "Birth of a Nation" portrayed Black men as violent rapists." | Suffragettes portrayed as violent terrorists. |"Birth of a Nation" also portrayed Jews as violent terrorists and rapists.| Portrayed as predators and criminals. | Isolated incidents are weaponized to paint entire groups as dangerous. | |
| | **"They're Inherently Deceptive"** | "These people will never admit/always lie/just a fetish/deceivers... | Such dehumanizing language has been used across all marginalized groups | | | | | | | **"They're Inherently Deceptive"** | "These people will never admit/always lie/just a fetish/deceivers... | Such dehumanizing language has been used across all marginalized groups | | | | | |
