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in the wake of the Brand news, I'm seeing a new wave of "grooming hypocrisy" charges that typically take the following form:
1) person calls trans or LGBTQ+ ppl "groomers"
2) then they show support for a celebrity or politician who literally grooms minors
3) therefore hypocrisy!

but as I explain here, conservatives & fascist-adjacent ppl (e.g., GC/TERFs) don't use "grooming" to refer to CSA, but rather to the an imagined "corruption" of their ingroup: https://juliaserano.medium.com/anti-trans-grooming-and-social-contagion-claims-explained-a511a93b042f?sk=6bb3c7d13529e52d16f9781f42162a3b