GLAAD ALERT Desk Data Shows Dramatic Rise in Anti-Trans Hate Incidents

https://glaad.org/glaad-alert-desk-data-shows-dramatic-rise-in-anti-trans-hate-incidents/?utm_campaign=morning_rounds&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_Dx_siBdnzL4vOQSFq0fTRy84mSwM7KNSC1U-udQ415hxa5PVhiymz_LIzD1XiwRBLIlfjSZnd0TaY5sMx0QJWUWybEQ&_hsmi=364493783&utm_content=364493783&utm_source=hs_email Anti-LGBTQ+ incidents related to health care have increased There were 932 anti-LGBTQ+ incidents of harassment, vandalism, or assault across the U.S. between May 1, 2024 and May 1, 2025, according to the GLAAD ALERT Desk, which tracks trends in extremism. That’s a 20% drop since the previous year. But incidents related to LGBTQ+ health care actually rose in that time — there were 154 incidents targeting providers, patients, or using anti-trans health care tropes. That’s a 62% increase from the previous year, and a whopping 295% increase from May 2022-2023, according to GLAAD. One of these incidents included action by the conservative advocacy group American Parents Coalition, in which billboard trucks were parked outside children’s hospitals in multiple states with messages falsely claiming the clinics were harming children by offering gender-affirming care. In the same week, a neo-Nazi group left dozens of flyers on lawns in a Connecticut community, targeting Jewish clinicians who provided gender-affirming care. The flyers identified specific clinicians, reading “A child mutilator lives amongst us.” GLAAD calls the numbers “far too high” but also “unsurprising,” given the dramatic increase in political rhetoric and legislation targeting queer and trans people since the beginning of the Trump administration.