The production of anti-transgender hate as communicative inversion to protect White male pedophiles and groomers
The 2025–2026 releases of the Jeffrey Epstein files—millions of pages of emails, flight logs, schedules, and investigative notes—have exposed not just a sex-trafficking network but a cultural ecosystem. Powerful men, many from elite academic and intellectual circles, maintained relationships with Epstein long after his 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor. These men often shared a worldview steeped in evolutionary psychology, biological determinism, and skepticism toward “social construct” explanations of gender and sexuality. At the same time, several of these same figures—or the ideological currents they represent—have amplified rhetoric framing transgender people, particularly trans women, as threats to children, as “groomers,” or as deluded victims of ideology. This is communicative inversion in action: project your group’s documented proximity to documented child sexual exploitation onto a tiny, marginalized community that has zero presence in the Epstein mate...