ADL Recommends Law Enforcement Investigate Prominent Critics of Child Gender Transitions
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh is among the “online amplifiers of LGBTQ+ hate” that the Anti-Defamation League recommends for legal scrutiny
The Anti-Defamation League has flagged prominent critics of so-called “gender-affirming” treatments for children to be investigated by law enforcement for “hate” activities.
The Oversight Project, a division of The Heritage Foundation, made the discovery after obtaining emails via Freedom of Information Act request that the ADL had sent to the Washington State Fusion Center, an institution for “unified counterterrorism.”
The email was issued from the ADL’s “Law Enforcement” address to intelligence analyst Tyler Phelan under the subject “White Supremacist Fight Clubs, Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate” and goes on to describe “extremist landscape.”
Among Islamist and white supremacist terrorism, the ADL includes “online amplifiers of LGBTQ+ Hate” that promote “false narratives, escalating harassment of LGBTQ+ individuals.”
Of this group’s activities, the email describes “the vilification of drag shows” and “baseless claims of ‘child grooming’ by LGBTQ+ people.”
The Heritage Foundation’s media arm The Daily Signal notes that the ADL email used verbiage expressed on its website that describes conservative voices against child gender transitions and sexuality education in the classroom as “Online Amplifiers of Anti-LGBTQ+ Extremism.”
The ADL names figures such as Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik, the group Gays Against Groomers, The Blaze media outlet, conservative commentator Matt Walsh, and cultural critic Christopher Rufo.
“ADL is advocating for government partners to strengthen laws against perpetrators of online hate, as well as consulting with law enforcement partners to act on online hate speech that incites violence and/or credible threats,” the ADL blog post declares.