In March 2021, a man named Matt Thompson (who goes by “they/them” pronouns and describes himself as being “genderfuck”) wrote a paper in connection with his studies in gender and sexuality at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He presented it at a conference in April that year for a course on Transnational Sexual Politics. The paper was titled, “Trans* Endemics: Embodying Viral and Monstrous Threat in Times of Pandemic.” In it, he said: “TERFs see transness as an endemic threat to feminism, a ‘social contagion’, the frontier on which they’re going to defeat patriarchy. They don their JK Rowling masks and shout bloody murder about ‘female erasure’. They see trans* people and gender studies departments as brainwashing the population against the sanctity of biological sex. Actually, on this last point, they’re not too far from right.” The paper concluded: “If TERFs think trans* is an endemic threat to feminism, let us be the threat to feminism. We are the endemic, the viral, the toxic onslaught of ideology that attacks the very core of what you hold dear. We go unnoticed, right up until the moment they scream for mercy. Am I a threat to you? Do I send chills down your spine? Picture this: I hold a knife to your throat and spit my transness into your ear. Does that turn you on? Are you scared? I sure fucking hope so.” web.archive.org/web/20210623…