New analysis from trans journalist and researcher Jessica Kant has found that Fox News publishes more articles about trans people than any other media outlet in the country. And that includes LGBTQ+ publications.

The findings bolster what Democrats have long argued, that it’s actually Republicans who are obsessed with trans people and not the other way around. Kant also noted that right-leaning publications produce far more articles on trans people than the mainstream media.

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“Our annihilation has become a central organizing principle of the Republican Party,” Kant wrote in her analysis, which used her research to unpack how the right “manufactured the illusion of a dangerous all-powerful enemy out of a tiny demographic with no political influence, financial resources, nor social capital.”

She called this effort “the outrage factory,” for which the anti-trans movement has crafted a library of misleading, fearmongering, and outright false stories designed to give Americans a common enemy.

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“Every time I think I’ve scratched the surface… I lose an entire weekend combing through stacks of awfulness that takes a whole bank of monitors to see,” Kant wrote.

She found that, each year since 2023, Fox News produced more articles than there were days in the year, which comes out to multiple per day.

“While the post-mortem of the 2024 election endlessly cited the ‘Kamala is for they/them‘ attack ad as the tipping point,” she explained. “This elides the fact that even if this were said tipping point, it was only because not a single day passed from 2023 onward where Americans weren’t bombarded with articles about trans people that were at best negatively-valenced, at worst outright libel and incitement.”

“By the time that particular match was lit, the entire United States had become a densely packed powder keg.”

Kant explained that the right-wing media machine has focused on “emphasiz[ing] the absurd” to fuel anti-trans outrage. Her research, she said, shows that “any attempt at accuracy or veracity has gone completely out the window, with a chillingly familiar trend towards the bombastic that has led to pogroms at other times in history.”

She explained that concepts like confirmation bias have allowed Americans to believe outlandish lies, such as the president’s claim that gender-affirming surgeries were happening in schools during the school day without parental consent.

She defines confirmation bias as the tendency “to equate how closely something aligns with their pre-existing views with its veracity.” So when people who had already bought into the anti-trans fearmongering heard the president’s lie, “the fact that this is not only absurd but logistically impossible did little to stop the spread,” she said.

“That procedures which take full operating rooms, a dozen staff and as many hours in the OR, alongside week long admissions and months of healing could be done in the course of a school day without anyone being the wiser should have permanently burned the credibility of the world’s most notoriously dishonest man. But it was rhetorically useful, and because it was useful, it made it to print.”

In the end, Kant emphasized that the absurd not only causes outrage, but also, “the absurd sells.”

“Why do conservatives believe that we’re everywhere, hiding in the bushes? Because powerful people won’t stop claiming it’s true, even if evidence to the contrary is everywhere.”

Kant also blamed news aggregators like Yahoo! (which she said “doesn’t try to distinguish between factual or reputable outlets and tabloids, and serves as a laundering mechanism for the latter”) and MSN for failing to discern between legitimate news articles and blog-like posts fueled by disinformation.

“MSN’s news portal is automatically piped to every Windows computer on the planet simultaneously,” she said, “with news alerts on start menus and push notifications displaying extremist websites alongside the Associated Press.”

Video content has also become a huge spreader of anti-trans vitriol. In 2025, Kant found that 108 videos from Fox spread anti-trans rhetoric.

“A single outlet, the one which happens to be the favorite of the president of the United States, can’t stop talking about us,” she concluded. “That’s the outrage factory.”

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