Trolls Ph Fake Acronym 'LGBTP' to Associate Gays Wh Pedophilia

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”Numero imag circulatg on Facebook the past few weeks show a poster wh the acronym LGBTP, which imag claim stands for “lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and pedosexual.

" Both are emblazoned on gay pri flags, and acpanied by tweets om a now-activated acunt that the hashtag "LGBTP. FCKH8 did not rpond to a requt for ment om USA Court grants feral job protectns to gay, lbian, transgenr workersRooted history of bigotryThe assertn that the LGBTQ muny ndon or supports pedophilia is not only false, but rooted a history of bigotry.

“There is a long-standg, homophobic and transphobic tactic of accurately parg LGBTQ people to pedophil and beg LGBTQ to pedophilia, ” Ferraro wrote. It nclud the children were "unlikely" to have been molted by a gay or lbian dividual. “For s, people who are homophobic, biphobic and transphobic have attempted to nnect LGBT muni wh paedophilia an attempt to stir up fear, hatred and discrimatn, ” Nellist wrote.

”Same-sex marriage lg at 5::Acceptance, advancement, but opposn remasAn old claim, prevly bunkedClaims like this have surfaced onle 2017, Snop traced the posts back to an anti-gay misrmatn mpaign that started on 4chan 2016, the hope of which was to trick the LGBTQ muny to exprsg support for May, Rters bunked siar posts that had begun to recirculate has reported the posts and had them removed by Facebook the past, Ferraro wrote.

Such claims also draw on a history of unserved stigma and stereotyp toward the LGBTQ fact-check sourc:Rich Ferraro, Chief Communitns Officer, GLAADNick Morrow, Interim Communitns Director, Human Rights CampaignJoe Nellist, Communitns Coordator, LGBT FoundatnLGBT Foundatn, "Pedosexual Statement"PubMed, Natnal Library of Medice, "Are children at risk for sexual abe by homosexuals? "There is a long-standg, homophobic and transphobic tactic of accurately parg LGBTQ people to pedophil and beg LGBTQ to pedophilia.

LGBT Foundatn is a chary that reprents and provis servic to lbian, gay, bisexual and trans people and no way ndon the cln of paedophilia as a mory sexual orientatn. Claims that the LGBT muny is addg a "P" to reprent "pedosexuals" origated wh a homophobic smear mpaign. Anti-gay activists ntue to ph the long-disproven ia that homosexualy and pedophilia are somehow nnected, spe an utter lack of scientific proof.

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Furthermore, this attempt to lk homosexualy to pedophilia was rooted bigotry, not statistics:. An pecially pernic myth is that most adults who sexually abe children are gay.

A number of rearchers have looked at this qutn to terme if homosexuals are more likely to be pedophil than heterosexuals, and the data dite that's not the se. For example, a 1989 study led by Kurt Frnd of the Clarke Instute of Psychiatry Canada, scientists showed pictur of children to adult gay and straight mal, and measured sexual aroal. Homosexual men reacted no more strongly to pictur of male children than heterosexual men reacted to pictur of female children.

In only two out of 269 s, the offenr was intified as beg gay or lbian.