The Federal Commerce Commission (FTC) was created in 1914 to protect consumers from corporate overreach. Under Donald Trump, the 110 -year -old bipartisan agency is now becoming a weapon of censorship and repression for the administration to drive against its political enemies.
Last week, the FTC organized a “workshop” with the unequivocal objective of spreading misinformation about one of the favorite objectives of the administration: trans people. The event, which was titled the dangers of the “attention affirmed by gender” for minors, brought a group of Anti-LGBTQ+ fans to transmit conspiracy theories and Medical misinformation about trans people, with the declared mission of eliminating gender attention for trans young people. Instead of doing the real work of the FTC, protecting Americans from excess technology companies, workshop participants spent hours discussing the apologized anti-trans conversation points that the right continues to present as a fact.
Participants requested the FTC to investigate medical suppliers who offer care to affirm the gender to minors, according to the statement that these doctors are dedicated to “unfair or misleading commercial practices.” This intrusion would not only clearly exceed the authority of the FTC, but also illustrates how the Trump FTC Armería the proposed internet censorship laws such as the Children’s Online Security Law (KOSA) to attack queer and trans people and their medical suppliers.
The activists have repeatedly indicated How anti-LGBTQ+ censorship would be supercharged under laws such as Kosa, the “Online Security” bill that Democrats and Republicans have been trying to overcome Congress for years. The bill would allow the Government to arm the FTC by giving the agency the power to press social media companies to eliminate any content that is determined as “harmful” or “causing anguish” to children.
This language is intentionally vague, and organizations such as Fight for the Future have warned that it could easily be used to censor anything that the government does not like, from LGBTQ+ online communities and medical resources to information about abortion. We have been here before: the law by the sex traffickers (sesta) and the Law of Sex Radical censorship of online communities As social media companies moved to cover their own results, exactly how they would act if Kosa passed.
So who will decide what is “harmful” or “stressful” for children with Kosa?
According to an earlier version of the bill, legislators proposed to allow state general prosecutors to decide what type of content constitutes damage and must be censored, a green light for any state with laws that already discriminate against queer and trans people. The supporters of the bill, including Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Hennessee) and the Heritage Foundation on the right, have explicitly fixed It would allow them to “protect” children censoring the trans content. This is in line with the Anti-LGBTQ+ agenda presented at the 2025 project, whose architects describe their search to criminalize pornography and LGBTQ content as one in it, and propose to make it a crime to promote “transgender ideology”, in other words, erase trans people from public life and punish anyone who refuses to do so.
However, Kosa’s Democratic supporters insisted that the new law would not be used to censor LGBTQ+content. But the opponents of the legislation retreated, which led to the bill to retire twice since its first presentation in 2022. The human rights groups and civil rights have been clear: the problem inherent with Kosa is the “duty of care” integrated in the legislation that would encourage companies to censor the content that the government could have problems.
In a new iteration of the bill, legislators tried to eliminate this obstacle when returning their proposal to grant powers to comply with the general prosecutors of the State. On the other hand, the bill now proposes to give this power to the FTC, the same FTC that only one an hour-hour anti-trans propaganda event was executed.
The FTC “Workshop” simulation made it clear that the agency would use these new censorship powers to carry out the Trump Anti-LGBTQ+ Agenda. Far from being neutral “experts”, people invited to the FTC event by the Trump Administration represent extreme right as the Heritage Foundation, as well as groups such as Moms for Liberty and do not damage, which have been designated as Anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups by the southern poverty law center. Many of the participants have has been paid to travel through the country Testimony about the “hazard” assumptions of LGBTQ+ medical care, and have been directly involved in harassment campaigns against people LGBTQ+ and their allies.
The meeting participants repeated the Theory of weakening repeatedly Of “fast starting gender dysphoria,” he cited widely discreted Garbage science documentsAnd described medical interventions that save lives such as puberty blockers, hormones that affirm gender and surgery with sensationalist terms such as “sterilization” and “mutilation.” They also repeated a right of the right upset about a “secret plot” of hospitals to make a transition by force. These are the same lies that have been consistently amplified by the Trump administration, with the clearly declared objective of ending trans medical care in the United States, not only for minors, but only for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors, but for minors adults too.
In reality, the attention affirmed by gender is supported by all the main medical organizations of the country, and there is a broad scientific consensus that overwhelmingly improves the life of trans people. For years, studies have It is consistently shown That access to hormones and clinical support Drastically reduce depression and suicide ratesparticularly for trans young people. The rates of regret for the surgical procedures that affirm the genre remain extremely small, with some studies that record it as low as 1.7% to 2.1% For minors. Further Studies Also Show, Consistently, That the Small Percentage of People Who Later Due to external pressure and structural discrimination against trans people.
But like everything in Trumpworld, the purpose of the FTC workshop was not to discuss facts or evidence. The Administration excluded transforms, suppliers of medical care, parents, allies and any other person who challenges their intolerance. At a time when the agency should be pushing against the innumerable abuse of MONOPOLISTIC COMPANIES OF GREAT TECHNOLOGY Companies, the event had nothing to do with the agency’s mandate to protect consumer rights, as well as their use of laws such as Kosa will have nothing to do with the protection of children. Instead, it shows how Trump has transformed the agency into another repression and propaganda tool to destroy the rights of queer and trans people in the United States.
Online communities are A lifeguard for many people LGBTQ+, especially for young people and trans that are often in a desperate search for affirmative spaces. Giving the FTC censorship powers would allow Trump to destroy these communities, as well as others used by abortions applicants, activists and any other person that the Administration has considered an enemy.
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