How “Transvestigation” Crawled Out of the Worst Corners of the Internet Into the Mainstream
Them:
“Transvestigators — lurking in comment sections, Facebook groups, and other dark corners of the internet — make factually baseless conclusions to “uncover” celebrities and public figures they believe are secretly trans, a.k.a. a “transvestigation.” Transvestigators often utilize racist, anti-semitic, and white standards of beauty to out “inverts,” or the celebrities they falsely believe are trans…
“Victims of transvestigation are typically scrutinized for having features that transvestigators deem outside the bounds of a person’s biological sex, like “broad shoulders” and “large noses” on women.”
- https://www.them.us/story/what-does-transvestigation-anti-trans-conspiracy-theory
- See also: A Wild Investigation of Transvestigators, the People Who Think Celebs Are All Trans https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-wild-investigation-of-transvestigators-the-people-who-think-celebs-are-all-trans/
- Top illustration: Conspiracy Watch
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