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The Right-Wing War on Trans Youth Was Hiding in Plain Sight Conservatives’ moral panic over Drag Queen Story Hour set the stage for the anti-trans bills flooding Republican legislatures today—and the same hate groups are behind it all. FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images Drag queens Scalene Onixxx (left) and Athena Kills at a Drag Queen Story Hour in Riverside, California, in 2019 Back in the summer of 2019, when a collection of Fox News personalities and unfamous anti-LGBTQ activists seized on their newest moral panic, it may have seemed like a miscalculation or a joke. What vexed and...

Members of Informed Parents of Washington drop off signatures petitioning for a referendum against recent sex-ed legislation in Olympia, Washington earlier this year. | Photo: Lynn Meagher Voters in Washington state have approved a referendum upholding a bill that would require public schools across the state to teach comprehensive sexual health education to students multiple times throughout their K-12 education.  Referendum 90 asked voters whether they wanted to repeal Senate Bill 5395, which was passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Jay Inslee earlier this year.  The bill wo...