🗣️ “STONING,” “CONTAGION,” AND “PURE EVIL”

The record of Charlie Kirk’s war on queer existence.

Kirk’s empire was built on hate. He glorified LGBTQ+ execution, mocked survival, and preached elimination. His legacy is not debate—it is the dehumanization of queer people.

Here is just a sampling of his words:

• Called for execution: Said that stoning gay people to death was “God’s perfect law when it comes to sexual matters.”

• Called for elimination: Said society should “just take care of” trans people like in the 1950s–60s—a time when queer people were lobotomized, electroshocked, institutionalized, and lynched.

• Preached dehumanization: Declared trans people are a “throbbing middle finger to God” and told a trans woman directly: “You’re an abomination.” This is the language of damnation—meant to brand people as less than human.

• Pathologized family rejection: Branded trans identities a “social contagion” and said he would reject his own child rather than accept them. A call for parents everywhere to abandon their LGBTQ+ children.

• Encouraged hate crimes: Demanded it be legal to burn rainbow flags and to overturn hate-crime convictions for people who destroyed Pride symbols—telling followers that intimidation and vandalism should be protected acts of patriotism.

• Stripped away humanity: Claimed the “transgender movement” would make people “stop being human” and merge with machines. He made trans existence synonymous with the death of humanity itself.

• Called doctors Nazis: Demanded “Nuremberg-style trials” for physicians providing gender-affirming care, equating lifesaving medicine with war crimes—and conveying execution or imprisonment as the only “justice.”

• Equated medicine with mutilation: Repeatedly smeared gender-affirming care as “child mutilation,” a lie designed to inflame mobs against doctors and families.

• Mocked survival as mafia rule: Sneered at LGBTQ+ people as the “alphabet mafia” and a “hyper-vocal minority,” painting them as both weak and tyrannical—classic scapegoating to stoke fear and resentment.

• Scapegoated mass murder: Blamed school shootings on the “trans medical industry,” shifting blame away from armed extremists and onto one of the most victimized groups in America.

• Invented delusions to scapegoat: Claimed trans people are to blame for inflation, sneering that “if you believe someone can change their gender, why wouldn’t you also believe that you could print wealth?” He turned the cost of living crisis into a chance to smear queer existence as counterfeit and fraudulent.

• Mocked Jan. 6 with homophobia: Joked that Jan. 6 rioters should have had gay sex on camera to escape punishment, using queer intimacy as a punchline for shame.

• Demonized athletes: Labeled trans athletes everywhere—“pure evil.”

Kirk’s words have real-world consequences. They drove a climate where LGBTQ+ people are assaulted on the street, where bomb threats shut down clinics, where parents are taught to turn on their own children, and where the FBI reports record spikes in hate crimes tied to gender identity and sexual orientation. They made physicians into targets, queer youth into scapegoats, and trans people into statistics in an annual body count.

This is not free speech in the marketplace of ideas—it is fuel for violence. And the danger does not end with Kirk’s death; it persists in every echo of his words that continues to legitimize hate.

🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Now more than ever, LGBTQ+ people need solidarity and protection. If you want to push back against this tide of hate:

Stand with the Trevor Project, which provides lifesaving crisis support for queer youth: thetrevorproject.org

Stand with PFLAG, the nation’s first and largest organization for LGBTQ+ people, their parents, and families: pflag.org

Back the Transgender Law Center, fighting for trans rights in the courts: transgenderlawcenter.org

Every donation, every share, every public refusal to be silent matters. Hate thrives on indifference. Solidarity stops it. ✊🏽

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