(Daily Mail) Pull away the black mask, and political extremism has a new face: ‘TRANTIFA’.
The portmanteau of ‘trans’ and ‘ANTIFA’ is exactly what you’d expect — far-left transgender activists willing to intimidate, harass and even use violence to advance their radical new ideas about gender.
Much like ANTIFA, they’re not a formal group of card-carrying members, with the term ‘Trantifa’ coined on social media to highlight the strong transgender presence within the anarchist outfit.
So-called Trantifa members are a small group of trans activists on the edges of the movement who post angry rhetoric online and gather at rallies.
UN investigator Reem Alsalem told DailyMail.com ‘screaming trans activists’ were a worrying and ‘increasing trend’ that must be tackled.
Trantifa activists make crude gestures and display the trans-antifascist banner at a rally in Vancouver, Canada, in March
The Vancouver rally descended into chaos, a female trans activist lashed out at an opponent of radical gender ideology, among the crowd of shouting TRANTIFA members
‘TRANTIFA’ activists clad in black and masks getting ready to disrupt a feminists’ event in Tacoma, Washington, last year
Julio Rosas, an author who recently testified to House lawmakers about leftist extremism, cites a series of trans extremist incidents, including trans shooter Audrey Hale‘s bloody rampage in a Christian elementary school in Nashville.
‘Trans activists gravitate towards these very far-left groups, because they share their anarcho-communist type ideology,’ Rosas told DailyMail.com.
‘They view the US as systemically racist, that it’s subjugated queer people, and that states passing laws against child mutilations is part of a trans genocide. And they’re fighting back.’
He described a radicalized group of trans activists concentrated on the East and West coasts who coordinate via messaging apps to stage rallies, confront rivals and push their ideas into the mainstream.
The FBI declined to comment on whether it was monitoring violent trans activism, but Rosas, Alsalem and some Republican politicians refer to ever-more incidents that make headlines.
In March, Hale shot and killed three children and three adults at Nashville’s Covenant School. The 28-year-old had started using he/him pronouns and going by the name Aiden.
Police are still studying the ‘manifesto’ Hale left behind. A court will decide whether to make it public.
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines was in April punched by a trans woman activist at San Francisco State University, after she made a speech against allowing female trans athletes to compete in women’s sports.
Julio Rosas (left), an expert on far-left violence, and UN investigator Reem Alsalem, say trans extremism is a threat
Calls for police to release Audrey Hale’s ‘manifesto’ have grown louder in the weeks after she murdered six adults and children at a Nashville Christian school
Protesters near the Supreme Court in Washington DC during a debate on trans rights. Many trans activists say they’re battling a ‘genocide’ and have vowed to fight back
Kayla Denker says there’s nothing scary about the video she posted of herself toting a military-grade weapon and threatening ‘transphobes’, insisting that she preaches non-violence and self-defense
In May, US cyclist Hannah Arensman revealed she’d quit the sport because she was harassed over her opposition to competing against biological males, including by members of the John Brown Gun Club, a pro-trans antifa group.
Meanwhile, trans women increasingly post online TRANTIFA videos about armed self-defense.
TikTok creator Tara Jay recently shared a menacing video clip with her 2,400 followers about using guns against anyone who dares to ‘stop me from going into the women’s bathroom.’
‘It will be the last mistake you ever make,’ she warned in the now-deleted post, in which she urged LGBTQ people to arm themselves.
Likewise, blogger Kayla Denker, a trans woman, posted footage of herself toting a military-style weapon, warning any ‘transphobes’ who ‘come for me.’
She later said she advocates for non-violent self-defense.
TRANTIFA activists use the acronym ‘TERF’ to disparage their opponents as trans-exclusionary radical feminists. They frequently threaten ‘TERFs’ with violence on social media and wear ‘punch a TERF’ t-shirts.
Other shirts sold online say ‘trans rights … or else’ alongside images of guns.
Alsalem, a UN special rapporteur, is tasked with monitoring violence against women and girls globally. She said women who speak up for women-only sports contests, bathrooms, or prisons face harassment or worse.
She threw her weight behind Gaines, who she says was ‘ambushed and hit’ by ‘screaming trans activists’ in San Francisco after speaking out against biological males competing in female-only sports contests.
‘There is an increasing trend that I have been observing,’ Alsalem told DailyMail.com.
Officials in the US and other western countries affected by this problem must ‘ensure that the freedom of speech and thought, including on the issues of sex, gender, and gender identity be protected and upheld,’ Alsalem said.
Merchandise includes t-shirts and stickers with guns alongside trans flags and slogans
Tara Jay posted a video to TikTok, telling her 2,400 followers that she would not accept anyone blocking her from using the female restrooms
