I don't think most people who aren't deeply plugged into antifascist circles, and organizations that watch right wing extremists are fully aware of precisely how inbred and interconnected the world of fascist activism, nazi ideologues, and the mainstream Pig Empire right actually is. In particular, I suspect most people are largely unaware of the way open hate groups, fascist propagandists, and extremely online bigots function as an entirely intentional mechanism to inject reactionary ideology into the discourse, identify targets for persecution by the larger reactionary sphere of influence, and provide the establishment "right" with talking points in a way that simply isn't accidental or unintentional on the part of either party. Of course to folks who don't spent their days tracking the activities of hatemongers, fascist "philosophers," and hyper-reactionary websites, all of that sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory, which makes it easy to dismiss so long as you're not actually following the connecting threads or watching it happen in real time.

Today then I'd like to shed a little more light on precisely how this process works by examining an interesting article about how an anti-trans website run by an Islamophobic "former" far right propagandist, actively functioned to wash patriarchal, anti-trans/intersex (and anti-feminist if you ask me) propaganda from a Russia boxing federation with close ties to Putin's government, into the mainstream discourse, and how that effort quickly made its way into not only mainstream discussion, but also the political sphere of several Pig Empire nations where fascists are in office, or running for office.

https://healthliberationnow.com/2024/09/02/from-fringe-hate-site-to-j-k-rowling-and-beyond-how-reduxx-launched-a-harassment-campaign-against-2-olympic-athletes/

From Fringe Hate Site to J K Rowling and Beyond: How Reduxx Launched a Harassment Campaign against 2 Olympic Athletes

"On July 27, Reduxx published an article authored by Anna Slatz that repeated IBA president Umar Kremlev’s claims that Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting had XY chromosomes and therefore should not compete alongside “biological women”, citing an article from TASS News, a Russian outlet. Slatz never claimed that either athlete was trans but rather that they were “impacted by a Difference of Sexual Development” or intersex. Slatz referred to social media posts from Brianda Tamara, a Mexican boxer who had fought and lost to Khelif at the Golden Belt tournament in Guadalajara and later questioned Khelif’s sex, claiming that she’d never been hit so hard by another boxer before. This led to rumors that Khelif was a trans woman, rumors which were quickly debunked in the Mexican media. Slatz also quoted Marshi Smith, co-founder of ICONS. Back in March 2023, ICONS had attacked Khelif and Lin after the IBA disqualified them.

As soon as the Reduxx article was posted, TERFs, “gender critical” activists, bioessentialists and other bigots started to spread it around. While Reduxx’s article claimed that Khelif and Lin were intersex, many TERFs and other transphobes on hearing that the athletes were “biologically male” assumed that they were trans women. Others speculated about what particular intersex conditions the athletes supposedly had. WDI-USA, the US branch of the WDI, posted the article on their social media and Kara Dansky, former president of WDI-USA, wrote about it on her SubStack. Prominent TERFs, including Meghan Murphy and Maya Forstater, recognized Reduxx’s role in spreading the story about Khelif and Lin. On July 29, Richard Dawkins shared the article claiming that Khelif and Lin were “men masquerading as women”. Elon Musk replied to Dawkins, stating that this was “unfair”. Dawkins later lies about his FB account being deleted because of this tweet."

As with any article seeking to prove an active connection between fascist propagandists, mainstream reactionaries in the discourse, and various members of the political class, this piece is quite detailed. The basic thread however is that the attacks on Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting originated in Russia propaganda useful to Putin's culture war and the IBA, were washed into Western consciousness by two far right propagandists running an anti-trans website called Reduxx, which then acted as a signal flare to summon high profile bigots like JK Rowling, Richard Dawkins, and Elon Musk into the fray, and finally culminated in the adoption of the crusade by numerous high-level fascist political actors in the Pig Empire, including of course America's own Donald Trump.

There will of course be those who dismiss all this as an unhappy consequence of circumstance, but given how often this happens I think that position is objectively obtuse. The fascist right in Pig Empire politics clearly relies on these fringe actors to inject fascist ideology and hate campaigns into the mainstream discourse and the inbred nature of these two groups makes it entirely clear that this is not an accident.