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Germany: Trans people targets of far-right disinformation

The German government plans to introduce a new law to make it easier for people to legally change gender. Far-right actors are using disinformation to push their own political agendas.

dw.com/en/germany-trans-people

Krahnke says that far-right actors in Germany are looking abroad to the US culture wars, in particular, for new disinformation narratives to push against trans people as part of a broader strategy to mobilize voters in support of its authoritarian, nationalist agenda.

"It's nothing new. We had this already in response to the gay rights movement," Krahnke told DW.

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