Many, many people have noticed the degree to which the ascendent anti-trans hysteria has been bathed in antisemitic subtext (or, just as often, text-text). A recent incident in metro Atlanta is barely even distinctive, it just happens be the one that happened within the past few days.
More antisemitic flyers have been distributed around metro Atlanta, about a month after the last time people found similar flyers in their neighborhood.
On Sunday, Atlanta police issued a statement about flyers found in East Atlanta titled “Who is behind the rise in transgenderism?” that feature a large rainbow-colored Star of David, and display QR codes with links to websites with anti-Jewish and anti-transgender statements.
Police said they were aware of the flyers and the Atlanta Police Department’s Homeland Security Unit was notified and is investigating.
The flyers' centerpiece is an attack on Magnus Hirschfeld, a German sexologist who was an early target of the Nazis. So it's nice we're circling all the way back to that.
On the other hand, the flyers also make note of how the Talmud recognizes eight genders (which is accurate -- take that, "Judeo-Christian" tradition!) and Jewish families which have embraced trans youth with open arms. The flyer, of course, presents this as an indictment. But I prefer to think of it as giving credit where it's due.
