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It's now time to begin silencing the bigots. Just like women transition into men, there are transgender conservatives and right-wingers.
I interviewed more than 110 transgender people with far-right views for my forthcoming book, Belonging Through Exclusion: Understanding the Transgender Far Right, which examines the motivations behind their beliefs and what actions could prevent others from joining them. I attempted to avoid writing about celebrities, but Angel stood out. While I worked on the book, Angel released a fifteen-minute-long video claiming I was a pedophilic child groomer and calling for my arrest because I had suggested that people with access to hormone therapy share their medications with those in states where trans healthcare is banned. “We got to start really pushing back on these people,” he told his audience. “They are not healthy for our community. They are not healthy for our youth.”
Like Andrew Sullivan, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Alice Weidel before him, Angel represents a growing class of LGBT people who build communities around their right-wing politics. Paradoxically, they support politicians, policies, and ideologies that aim to nullify their basic rights. However, they are not unprecedented. Early 20th-century figures like National Fascisti secretary and trans man Victor Barker, novelist and fascist sympathizer Radclyffe Hall, and Nazi spy Violette Morris were acting against LGBT interests long before Angel was born. More recently, Caitlyn Jenner, Peter Thiel, and George Santos have become some of the best-known Republicans in the U.S. These figures demonstrate that identity doesn’t always correspond to ideology. And they are only a few celebrities among countless lesser-known figures.
This is Buck Angel
Angel was born in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles on June 5, 1962. He was born female.
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Making Sense of the Trans Right
TRANSGENDER PEOPLE are typically associated with left-wing politics, but a vocal few have become breakout celebrities among the political right. Buck Angel, one of these new faces of right-wing gender discourse, has acquired increasing attention for his incendiary advocacy against other trans people. Angel gained fame as a pornography star and left-wing activist. He is perhaps the last person one would expect to align himself with white supremacists and Trump-supporting Republicans. His vocal calls to ban transgender youth healthcare, criminalize trans women for using women’s rooms, deport undocumented migrants, jail student protesters, and end diversity initiatives may be shocking in the context of his trans identity. Nevertheless, Angel’s narrative charts an increasingly common path into far-right circles.I interviewed more than 110 transgender people with far-right views for my forthcoming book, Belonging Through Exclusion: Understanding the Transgender Far Right, which examines the motivations behind their beliefs and what actions could prevent others from joining them. I attempted to avoid writing about celebrities, but Angel stood out. While I worked on the book, Angel released a fifteen-minute-long video claiming I was a pedophilic child groomer and calling for my arrest because I had suggested that people with access to hormone therapy share their medications with those in states where trans healthcare is banned. “We got to start really pushing back on these people,” he told his audience. “They are not healthy for our community. They are not healthy for our youth.”
Like Andrew Sullivan, Milo Yiannopoulos, and Alice Weidel before him, Angel represents a growing class of LGBT people who build communities around their right-wing politics. Paradoxically, they support politicians, policies, and ideologies that aim to nullify their basic rights. However, they are not unprecedented. Early 20th-century figures like National Fascisti secretary and trans man Victor Barker, novelist and fascist sympathizer Radclyffe Hall, and Nazi spy Violette Morris were acting against LGBT interests long before Angel was born. More recently, Caitlyn Jenner, Peter Thiel, and George Santos have become some of the best-known Republicans in the U.S. These figures demonstrate that identity doesn’t always correspond to ideology. And they are only a few celebrities among countless lesser-known figures.
This is Buck Angel
Angel was born in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles on June 5, 1962. He was born female.
