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These are not protests. These are fascist mobs whose sole purpose is to threaten LGBT people and their allies.

Nominally focused on inclusive sex-ed in schools (SOGI), the goal of these conspiracists is to spread the dangerous and inciting lie that transgender and 2SLGBTQ+ persons are pedophiles who are “grooming” children

They use a wide variety of language, to speak to a variety of audiences, from normal seeming language around "parents choice" to explicit lies about groomimg and pedophilia.

The purpose of these mobs isn't to convince anybody of anything. It's to inspire stochastic terrorism and intimidate politicians with threats of violence.

It is not a coincidence that they adopt many strategies from 20th century fascist street gangs, and that their talking points are only slightly updated versions of 20th century anti-Semitic conspiracy theories such as blood libel.