06/04/2018
The LGBT newswire Pink News says that even though all reputable news sources report that the You Tube massacre perpetrator, Nasim Najaf Aghdami was a woman and had been born a woman, it has not stopped some of the stranger fringes of the internet to push the conspiracy theory that she was really a trans woman, and to blame all transgender people for the violence. Pink News, which monitors the web daily for some of the most outlandish anti-trans and bigoted content, says that some of the claims come from religious extremists, some from the usual neo-nazis and hate groups, and that others come from a small sub-section of 1970s style feminists who call themselves TERFS. This latter group make unlikely alliances with the far right and try to stop trans equality. They are known to be particularly abusive to trans people and towards others in the wider queer communities that support them. The claim that Nasim Najaf Aghdami was a transwoman is based on the fact that she had what the conspiracy theorists call a “man’s face”. Anti-racist groups have since pointed out that this is not only transphobic, but also deeply racist, because as an woman of Iranian background, Aghdami had deep set features and dark eyes.
https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/04/05/anti-trans-feminists-push-conspira...
