Leader of the group that wrote the Cass Review, an evaluation of evidence on puberty blockers commissioned by the United… Read more: Hilary Cass: Gender Villain

President of the Center for Christian Virtue who promotes transphobic legislation in the state of Ohio.

Virulently transphobic former U.S. President and current Republican candidate for U.S. President.

Attorney General of U.S. state of Tennessee who required Vanderbilt University to provide names and details of treatment for transgender… Read more: Jonathan Skrmetti: Gender Villain

U.S. Representative from state of South Carolina who proposed a bathroom ban for transgender people working at or visiting the… Read more: Nancy Mace: Gender Villain

A professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life who spoke… Read more: Melissa Moschella: Gender Villain

Conservative organization that holds anti-transgender conferences.

Republican Senator from U.S. state of Utah who co-introduced transphobic legislation with Ted Cruz to make schools allowing transgender women… Read more: Mike Lee: Gender Villain

Swimmer from U.S. state of Kentucky who fights to prevent transgender people from competing in sports based on their gender… Read more: Riley Gaines: Gender Villain

Transphobic Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in the state of Montana.

Transphobic Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in the state of Ohio.

Transphobic campaign manager of U.S. Republican Presidential candidate and former U.S. president Donald Trump.

Republican Senator from U.S. state of Texas who co-introduced transphobic legislation with Mike Lee to make schools allowing transgender women and girls… Read more: Ted Cruz: Gender Villain

Rating: Transphobic, Fox News, October 18, 2024 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Texas… Read more: Texas doctor accused of illegally providing transgender hormone treatments to minors

Transphobic columnist and author.

Transphobic former ESPN Sports anchor.

Transphobic volleyball player who has called for presidential candidates to ban transgender women from women’s sports teams.

San Jose State student on volleyball team who joined a transphobic lawsuit, with gender villain and transphobic swimmer Riley Gaines,… Read more: Brooke Slusser: Gender Villain

Rating: Transphobic, Fox News, October 11, 2024 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Video archive) (Video archive 2) (Take Action) Action Recommendations… Read more: San Jose State volleyball team with transgender player says no more future matches have been forfeited

President of American Principles Project, a transphobic conservative advocacy group.

A U.S. Republican who creates transphobic election ads.

Rating: Transneutral, The New York Times, October 8, 2024 (PDF archive) (HTML archive) (Take Action) Action Recommendations Content Summary Trump… Read more: Trump and Republicans Bet Big on Anti-Trans Ads Across the Country

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Governor of Florida and Republican candidate for U.S. President in the 2024 election who has promoted many transphobic and racist… Read more: Ron DeSantis: Gender Villain

2024 Republican U.S. Presidential candidate, a former governor of South Carolina, and U.S. ambassador to the U.N., who vigorously opposes… Read more: Nikki Haley: Gender Villain

Transphobic moderator of the fourth and final GOP primary debate of election 2024 in the United States.

Entrepreneur and Republican candidate for U.S. President in the 2024 primary election who stated in September 2023 that “transgenderism” is… Read more: Vivek Ramaswamy: Gender Villain

An organization founded in January 2021 with ties to high-ranking elected officials and national anti-LGBTQ groups including the Heritage Foundation,… Read more: Moms for Liberty: Gender Villain

Chairperson of the Republican Party in the U.S. state of Florida who is married to Bridget Ziegler, a co-founder of… Read more: Christian Ziegler: Gender Villain

Co-founder of anti-LGBTQ organization Moms for Liberty who is married to the chairperson of the Republican Party in the U.S.… Read more: Bridget Ziegler: Gender Villain

Sex researcher who proposed the transphobic fringe theory of autogynephilia.

Published an article about the transphobic fringe theory of autogynephilia in British right-leaning publication UnHerd in November 2023.

Governor of U.S. state of Virginia who implemented transphobic school guidelines.

Right-wing extremist organization that pushes anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric at school board and city council meetings in the United States.

Founder of Proud Boys who was was convicted of seditious conspiracy for the January 6 United States Capitol attack, among… Read more: Enrique Tarrio: Gender Villain

A Navy Chief Special Warfare Operator and active-duty SEAL based in San Diego and former member of SEAL Team 6… Read more: Bryce Henson: Gender Villain

Religious organization that opposes gender-affirming care for transgender people that has released a position paper claiming that “The Ideology of… Read more: Catholic Medical Association: Gender Villain

Legislator in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania who authored a “Don’t Say Gay” bill that would extend educational gag orders… Read more: Stephanie Borowicz: Gender Villain

Republican Governor of U.S. state of Iowa who, on March 3, 2022, signed into law House File 2416, which prohibits… Read more: Kim Reynolds: Gender Villain

Right-wing conservative activist in the U.S. who in 2021 started writing that LGBTQ+ people and others are “grooming” children.

Republican Representative in the legislature of the U.S. state of Wisconsin who in 2023 proposed legislation requiring that transgender people… Read more: Ty Bodden: Gender Villain

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Fox News commentator who downplayed U.S. House of Representative Speaker Mike Johnson’s history of extreme anti-LGBTQ activism and defended Johnson’s… Read more: Sean Hannity: Gender Villain

Organization founded by U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, who served as president and chief counsel in 2015, that… Read more: Freedom Guard: Gender Villain

Organization whose owner and CEO is Kelly Johnson, wife of U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, and whose website… Read more: Onward Christian Counseling Services: Gender Villain

Wife of newly elected U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson, a relatively unknown congressmember from Louisiana, and owner and CEO… Read more: Kelly Johnson: Gender Villain

Democrat representative in state legislature of the U.S. state of North Carolina who defected to Republican party, permitting two-thirds super-majority… Read more: Tricia Cotham: Gender Waffler

Catholic Medical Association staff member and a Governor Ron Desantis-handpicked Board of Medicine member in the U.S. state of Florida… Read more: Patrick Hunter: Gender Villain

Chief psychiatrist in the department of adolescent psychiatry at Finland’s Tampere University Hospital who claims to reveal the “truth” about… Read more: Riitakerttu Kaltiala: Gender Villain

Transphobic fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

CEO of The Babylon Bee, a conservative Christian news satire website that publishes satirical articles on topics including religion, politics,… Read more: Seth Dillon: Gender Villain

U.S. state of Texas Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023 to… Read more: Brian Babin: Gender Villain

Conservative parents group that distributed brochures in San Jose school districts in the U.S. state of Califonia urging parents to… Read more: Informed Parents of Silicon Valley: Gender Villain

U.S. state of Illinois Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023 to… Read more: Mary Miller: Gender Villain

U.S. state of Indiana Republican Chairperson of the Anti-Woke Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a… Read more: Jim Banks: Gender Villain

U.S. state of Montana Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023 to… Read more: Matt Rosendale: Gender Villain

U.S. state of Wisconsin Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023 to… Read more: Glenn Grothman: Gender Villain

U.S. state of California Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023 to… Read more: Doug LaMalfa: Gender Villain

U.S. state of Tennessee Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023 to… Read more: Scott DesJarlais: Gender Villain

U.S. state of Wyoming Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023 to… Read more: Harriet Hageman: Gender Villain

U.S. state of South Carolina Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives who ranted in a letter in October 2023… Read more: Jeff Duncan: Gender Villain

Welsh co-ordinator of the Women’s Rights Network who said including transgender women in the Welsh Gender Quotas Bill would “embed… Read more: Cathy Larkman: Gender Villain

Welsh Secretary who opined that including transgender women as part of the Welsh Gender Quotas Bill would “have a detrimental… Read more: David TC Davies: Gender Villain

Banned transgender women from playing in women’s category at chess competitions.

Author of U.S. state of Alabama’s copycat “Don’t Say Gay” legislation in 2022 who wrote another bill extending the legislation… Read more: Mack Butler: Gender Villain

A “far-right, anti-LGBT Twitter account owned by Chaya Raichik, a former real estate agent who reposts content created by left-wing… Read more: Libs Of TikTok: Gender Villain

Far-right organization in the U.S. state of Alabama who demanded “the immediate removal of pornographic, obscene, and indecent books from… Read more: Clean Up Alabama: Gender Villain

Right-wing organization in the U.S. state of Missouri that opposes transgender rights and DEI initiatives and that spreads the hoax… Read more: Francis Howell Families: Gender Villain

Republican Representative for the U.S. state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives who strongly opposes LGBTQ rights, architected… Read more: Mike Johnson: Gender Villain

Right-wing group lobbying for anti-transgender legislation across the United States and even internationally.

Parent Advocate at Do No Harm, influential in shaping Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” legislation.

Co-Founder and Associate Editor of junk science Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences.

Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of junk science Journal of Open Inquiry in the Behavioral Sciences.

Anti-transgender organization promoting the discredited diagnosis of Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria.

Disgraced researcher whose clinic was shut down after accusations that it practiced conversion therapy.

Researcher who pushes harmful theories of transgender identity that center on the idea that a large number transgender people transition… Read more: Michael Bailey: Gender Villain

Organization that labels transgender identities as “a trend”.

Organization linked to several policymakers opposing gender-affirming care—including those who submitted Florida’s anti-transgender legislation.

Conversion therapy organization that offers referrals to over 100 conversion therapists for treatment of “homosexuality issues” or “gender identity issues”.

An “association opposes bans on conversion therapy, submits public comments in favor of blocking Title IX protections against gender discrimination… Read more: Gender Exploratory Therapy Association: Gender Villain

Former U.S. Vice President and U.S. Republican Party candidate for U.S. President in 2024 election who proposed a ban on… Read more: Mike Pence: Gender Villain

Representative of U.S. state of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives and far right-wing Republican conspiracy theorist who proposed… Read more: Marjorie Taylor Greene: Gender Villain

Republican from the U.S. state of Texas and representative of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives who proposed in… Read more: Dan Crenshaw: Gender Villain

Right-wing news commentator who starred in a bisexual role when a movie actor in college.

Anti-transgender activist who spread the “groomer” slur about LGBTQ+ people and allies.

Anti-transgender activist who has called transgender children fetishists who deserve “no empathy”.

Democrat representative in state legislature of U.S. state of Kansas who broke rank with fellow Democrats to support anti-transgender legislation.

Republican representative in state legislature of U.S. state of Wisconsin who, in debate over three anti-transgender bills, described gender-affirming vaginoplasty… Read more: Janel Brandtjen: Gender Villain

Republican representative in state legislature of U.S. state of Wisconsin who, in debate over three anti-transgender bills, suggested that the… Read more: Chuck Wichgers: Gender Villain

Republican representative in state legislature of U.S. state of Wisconsin who, in debate over three anti-transgender bills, stated that gender-affirming… Read more: Ron Tusler: Gender Villain

Republican representative in U.S. state of Wisconsin legislature who claimed that “three-year-olds” were being “mutilated” in debate about three anti-transgender… Read more: Robin Vos: Gender Villain

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Deputy Counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty who participated in lawsuit to prevent transgender child from choosing… Read more: Gender Villain: Luke Berg

Organization participated in a lawsuit to prevent transgender child from choosing their own pronouns at a school in the U.S.… Read more: Gender Villain: Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

Organization who participated in a lawsuit to prevent transgender children from choosing their own pronouns at a school in the… Read more: Gender Villain: Tammy Fournier

Governor of Nebraska who signed bill banning healthcare for transgender youth on May 22, 2023, and signed an executive order… Read more: Jim Pillen: Gender Villain

Retired lesbian feminist academic who espoused anti-trangender ideology and who wrote in a 1997 article in the Journal of Lesbian Studies… Read more: Sheila Jeffreys: Gender Villain

Right-wing organization that promotes anti-transgender legislation and spent tens of millions of U.S. dollars on anti-transgender ads in 2022.

Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives representing the state of Colorado.

Attorney General of the U.S. state of Nebraska who in September 2023 has defended Nebraska SB 150 which bans gender-affirming… Read more: Daniel Cameron: Gender Villain