🧩 BND Motif Index · M563
Transvestigation
A cisgender woman, usually a public figure, is smeared as secretly trans in order to discredit her.
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1claim retold online
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Smear campaign
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Closet case 🧩 Predator in the bathroom 🧩 Targeting minorities 🧩 We did it, Reddit!
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Trump uses anti-trans slur against Democratic Senate candidate in South Carolina 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-07
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-12 “Social media users claim that a photo of two shirtless men on a boat is an authentic image of Barack and Michelle Obama from a cruise in July 1985.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-09 “Donald Trump used a slur to attack Dr. Annie Andrews and posted videos to fear-monger against transgender people.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-07 “President Donald Trump used an anti-trans slur to attack Democratic Senate candidate Annie Andrews.” 🧶 people online
M563 · first seen 2026-10-07 · last 2026-10-09 · what this is · how the index works