This page contains a lot of transphobia, and also racism and other forms of bigotry. We do this to expose it, but if you are trans, it is important to limit your consumption of this content for your own safety and mental health. There are good people out there. The people we investigate are not them.
We offer a page of positive news and uplifting stories to balance out some of the negativeity.
Stop Transphobia is a grassroots community watchdog organization dedicated to exposing groups and individuals who promote transphobia and transmisogyny. We are informally organized, and we try to remain mostly anonymous for our own protection.
We started in 2025 as the Trump administration and the large international fascist movement were spinning up targeting trans people to use in culture wars.
We do not have a geographically-limited area of interest, however, at this time, all of our contributors a mostly English-speaking, so our ability to cover transphobia outside of the English-speaking world is quite limited. We do cover the US, UK, Canada, and we intend to cover other countries. However, we also do not wish to duplicate the work of other competant organizations. For that reason, in cases where other sites that we are aware of have published information, we may chose to link to it rather than do our own independent work.
Transphobic sentiments are distressingly common, particularly in the United States under the Trump administration. For that reason, we aren't trying to catch accidental or offhand transphobia, as annoying as it may be. We encourage you to engage if you feel able to, as much as possible and safe, with people expressing unintentional transphobia in an effort to correct them. This can be disheartening work, and you must take care of yourself if you do it, but that may be the best way to actually change these people's minds.
On the other side, we aren't generally looking to document famous transphobes. People who are outwardly, overtly transphobic are not worth wasting a lot of time on because the people in their lives know who they are. This is true of both cisgender transphobes and pick-me trans people who sell out the community for profit. In some cases, it might be worth revealing secrets they hide, but in a large number of cases, our energy is best spent on other people.
We're mostly interested in two types of transphobia. The first are those individuals and groups that engage in harassment of trans people casually and intentionally. The people who might find it awkward if their loved ones knew about their behavior. The people whose employers might claim to be pro-LGBTQ+, and who might be surprised to find out their employees post hate online. We seek to end transphobic harassment by exposing it. Individuals need not be famous to be investigated, they just need a public record of discoverable, deliberate transphobia.
The other type of transphobia we're looking to document and expose is what might be called covert transphobia. Transphobia that tries to hide what it is. That tries to disguise itself as something else, like a concern for women's right, or safeguarding children. This would apply to someone like JK Rowling prior to her coming out overtly against trans right, back when she was gaslighting everyone to claim that she wasn't anti-trans. It also applies to situations where institutions have been secretly captured by anti-trans activists and turned against their intended purpose. The EHRC in the UK, the Cass Review, the LGB Alliance are a few examples of this. Exposing covert transphobia, making it harder to deny, has a lot of value, in part because people and groups engaging in covert transphobia need to hide their goals to achieve their aims. Robbing them of their venere of neutrality is an important tactic.
While we are interested in the later type of investigation, there are already a number of good organizations doing that work very well. In some cases, we'll seek to summarize some of the important findings in a way that's useful to refer to here, and in other cases we'll just point to the work of others. It isn't our goal to duplicate this work, but because of the nature of the UK's libel laws, it may be easier for us to be more candid than a UK-based organization in some cases.
We accept tips, original writing, and any other information about transphobia. If you are going to submit content subject to copyright, please include a statment of release permitting our publication of it. If you do not own the copyright, please note that, and if possible, let us know who does and under what terms we can use it.
Tips and other communications can be sent to our tipline: tips@stoptransphobia.org.