Anti-Trans Weirdos Are Even Transvestigating Video Game Characters Now
Channel: The Humanist Report
Date: 2023-12-08

Rockstar released its first trailer for the highly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI, and predictably, the conservative backlash was swift and severe. While anti-trans bigots began investigating the game’s female protagonist, Lucia, others called for the game to be banned entirely due to the sexual “degeneracy” it promoted. We’ll break it all down in this video. 

Sources:
Pink News (4/9/23) - “Transphobes share conspiracy theory about Daniel Radcliffe’s pregnant girlfriend”: https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/09/daniel-radcliffe-erin-darke-transphobia/
Pink News (11/22/23) - “Libs of TikTok and Riley Gaines target cis woman Rabbi with anti-trans attacks”: https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/11/22/riley-gaines-libs-of-tiktok-target-cis-rabbi-jessica-rosenberg/
The New York Times (6/14/23) - Man Who Questioned 9-Year-Old Athlete’s Gender Spurs Outrage”: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/world/canada/girl-athlete-trans-gender.html
Wresting News (12/5/23) - “Mya Lesnar broke the shot put record at Colorado State.”: https://twitter.com/WrestlingNewsCo/status/1732191751065010544
Forbes (7/28/22) - “‘GTA 6’ Will Neither Go ‘Woke,’ Nor ‘Broke’ When It Arrives”: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/07/28/gta-6-will-neither-go-woke-nor-broke-when-it-arrives/?sh=2c2f901e2f1d
Rolling Stone (12/5/23) - “Right-Wing Trolls Waste No Time Trying to Start Transphobic ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Backlash”: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/grand-theft-auto-lucia-1234911253/
IGN (4/19/22) - “ Rockstar Quietly Removes GTA 5 Content Described As Transphobic From New-Gen Releases”: https://www.ign.com/articles/rockstar-gta-5-transgender-content-removed
The Daily Dot (12/6/23) - “Ian Miles Cheong Community Noted to death for trying to suck up to Musk by claiming he hates ‘Grand Theft Auto’ too”: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/ian-miles-cheong-elon-musk-grand-theft-auto/
Insider Gaming (12/6/23) - “Andrew and Tristan Tate Are Against GTA 6’s Violent Themes”: https://insider-gaming.com/tate-brothers-gta-6-violence/
Vice News (12/5/23) ‘ “‘GTA VI’ Has Already Sparked a Bizarre Moral Panic Fit For Our Age”: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3we8x/gta-vi-has-already-sparked-a-bizarre-moral-panic-fit-for-our-age

Chapters:
0:00 Transvestigations
0:55 GTA VI Protagonist
3:30 GTA V
4:59 Elon Musk Attempts to Play GTA V
6:44 Conservative Calls to Ban GTA VI
10:27 Outro

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