Content warning: This article includes repeated references to anti-trans slurs.
President Joe Biden recognized March 31 as Trans Day of Visibility, an occasion to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people that falls on the same day every year. Because March 31 this year was also the Christian holiday of Easter, right-wing media falsely claimed that it was “a deliberate and satanic mockery of God Himself on the holiest day of the year,” and launched into a frenzy of dehumanizing rhetoric against trans people.
Conservative commentators and some Republican politicians suggested support for trans inclusion is “demonic” and “satanic,” while other right-wing figures mocked Trans Day of Visibility, using anti-trans slurs online and falsely claiming that former first lady Michelle Obama is trans.