A leading pro-LGBT group this week published a report on &#8220;anti-LGBTQ incidents&#8221; in the United States. It&#8217;s incredibly shocking — but not in the way you&#8217;d think.
GLAAD (Gay &amp; Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) <a href="https://assets.glaad.org/m/517666e6160db065/original/2025-GLAAD-ALERT-Desk-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> more than 932 hate incidents across the country over the year that ended May 1. The group also claims that &#8220;anti-trans hate hit a record high&#8221; and that &#8220;52% of all incidents were targeting transgender and gender nonconforming people.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s the kicker: the biggest category of incidents GLAAD recorded was &#8220;protests.&#8221; Yeah, you read that right.
It&#8217;s not clear which specific protests GLAAD is referring to.
Perhaps it&#8217;s parents fighting for their children. Just last month, Colorado parents <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-parents-blocked-the-radical-child-custody-part-of-colorados-new-transgender-law?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=How+Parents+Blocked+The+Radical+Child+Custody+Part+Of+Colorado’s+New+Transgender+Law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">showed</a> up at the state capital to rally against a radical bill that declared that parents in custody battles who misgender or “deadname” their child were guilty of “coercive control” and could lose their child.
Or maybe it&#8217;s female athletes <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/most-likely-ended-my-career-disc-golfer-who-protested-trans-competitor-says-she-has-no-regrets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">walking</a> off the field and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-female-fencer-and-trans-supporting-usa-fencing-head-face-off-at-heated-doge-hearing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refusing</a> to compete against trans-identifying male competitors.
Perhaps it&#8217;s one of the countless other events organized by the countless concerned Americans who have shown up at school board meetings, state legislatures, and <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2025/04/22/demonstrations-supreme-court-religious-freedom-lgbtq-diversity-photos/83210169007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even</a> the Supreme Court to speak out against LGBT agendas.
Meanwhile, of course, there&#8217;s a long list of actually violent acts the Left does not consider hate. How about the disturbed trans-identifying woman who shot up The Covenant School in Nashville in 2023, killing six people, including three nine-year-olds? Or the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 that destroyed over $1 billion of property? Or maybe the firebombing of pro-life pregnancy centers around the time Roe v. Wade was overturned?
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Still waiting on the report that includes those!
Another eye-catching category in GLAAD&#8217;s report was &#8220;propaganda drops,&#8221; with more than 60 incidents, although it is not exactly clear what a &#8220;propaganda drop&#8221; is. Perhaps college students <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/university-bans-student-from-handing-out-christian-pamphlets-to-lgbt-studies-class.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">handing</a> out Christian pamphlets to an LGBT studies class?
GLAAD claimed trans-identifying and &#8220;gender nonconforming&#8221; people were the target of over half of all the anti-LGBTQ incidents, but this includes 209 &#8220;protests&#8221; and 33 &#8220;propaganda drops.&#8221;
&#8220;Compared to last year’s data, this represents a 14% increase in incidents targeting transgender and gender nonconforming people,&#8221; GLAAD said.
The other categories included about 280 harassment incidents, 140 vandalism incidents, 85 assaults, 20 bomb threats, and 15 arson attempts.
So bomb threats, arson, and violent assaults are in the same &#8220;hate&#8221; category as legal, peaceful protests exercising First Amendment rights. Got it!
Sarah Moore, who runs GLAAD&#8217;s tracker, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/06/02/anti-lgbtq-incidents-glaad-data-transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the tracker includes &#8220;every expression of hate&#8221; regardless of whether it is a crime because &#8220;LGBTQ people are going to experience these things as acts of hate, regardless of if they&#8217;re prosecuted as that.&#8221;
GLAAD pointed the finger at the Trump administration, saying its executive orders &#8220;specifically demean and discriminate&#8221; against trans-identifying people.
Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump issued multiple executive orders that banned federal funds for schools that allow males in girls&#8217; sports and bathrooms, as well as for hospitals that perform transgender surgeries on children.
One order also defined sex as male and female — remember when this was common sense? Now it&#8217;s &#8220;hateful.&#8221;
&#8220;Hope shines brightest in the darkest moments,&#8221; said GLAAD&#8217;s president and CEO, Sarah Kate Ellis, in a letter published with the report. &#8220;As we honor the queer and trans leaders of decades past and present, and resolve to overcome the challenges of today, we create a new legacy of joy as resistance.&#8221;
By the way, this is not even the first year GLAAD has counted protests and rallies as &#8220;hate&#8221; incidents.
GLAAD launched its &#8220;ALERT Desk&#8221; database to track anti-LGBTQ extremism back in June 2022. Of the 2,626 incidents GLAAD <a href="https://glaad.org/anti-lgbtq-extremism-reporting-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> have occurred in the three years since the database was launched, 872 of them are protests or rallies.
Can&#8217;t wait to see next year&#8217;s report, which will probably include every time someone looked sideways at a drag queen!

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