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Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement
An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.
The findings do illustrate the insidious ways the oil and gas industry uses its dirty money to harm trans folks, some of the people most vulnerable to climate change impacts. Dan and Farris Wilks, who made their fortune on fracking and the latter of whom is a pastor, helped launch The Daily Wire, a popular right-wing media company co-founded by Ben Shapiro, with a $4.7 million donation. That tactic has since spread like wildfire across both major political parties in the U.S. By 2023, Newell and Taylor went full steam ahead digging into who is funding the organizational bodies pushing anti-trans rhetoric into legislative chambers and found fossil fuel connections at every turn.
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