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That campaign set the stage for the broader Red Scare, where leftists, racial justice activists, and suspected communists were blacklisted, arrested, and exiled.

The pattern repeated in 1970s Argentina under the fascist junta. Before the government escalated its mass killings of leftist dissidents, Indigenous leaders, and feminists, they first erased trans people from public life. Police rounded up and murdered trans women, destroying records of their existence.

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