While most mainstream platforms have been profiting from hate campaigns targeting LGBTQI+ folks, Paypal and Venmo recently banned anti-trans group Gays Against Groomers, who will no longer be able to use the payment processing site to recieve funds.

Gays Against Groomers has been committed to pushing the anti-trans narrative that misconstructs transness through harmful ‘grooming’ narratives on ‘indoctrinatation, sexualization and medicalization’.

The “Grooming” narrative has surged past the rise of 400 percent in social media conversations, thanks to the sickening concoction of legislative attacks, fox news rants and echo chambers amplified by social media architectures.

Florida’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay or Trans” bill that erases LGBTQI+ folks from classrooms, was been credited as a significant contributor in the anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation campaign by extremist politicians, according to Human Rights Campaign’s report titled Digital Hate: Social Media’s Role in Amplifying Dangerous Lies About LGBTQ+ People.

The report found that slurs – like “groomer” and “pedophile” – rose by 406 percent in their targeting of LGBTQI+ folks, driven mostly by a small group of politicians and allies including Gov. Ron DeSantis’s press secretary Christina Pushaw, members of Congress Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, and pro-Trump activists like “Libs of TikTok” founder Chaya Raicheck.

“As social media platforms fail to enforce their own standards — enabling a wave of online anti-LGBTQ+ hate to grow without restraint — extremists are wielding dangerous influence, seeking to radicalize Americans, incite hate against LGBTQ+ people, and mobilize the extremists within their base ahead of the midterm elections,” HRC Interim President Joni Madison, said in a statement.

“The rise of this online vitriol doesn’t just have political implications — there are deadly, real world consequences as violent rhetoric leads to stigma, radicalization, and ultimately violence,” Madison added. “Nearly one-in-five of any type of hate crime is now motivated by anti-LGBTQ+ bias, and the last two years have been the deadliest for transgender people, particularly Black transgender women.”