Majority of Americans oppose using vile ‘groomer’ slur for LGBT-inclusive teachers and parents

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The majority of US voters oppose using the slur “groomer” to describe LGBT-inclusive teachers and parents, a new poll has revealed.

The Data for Progress poll surveyed 1,155 likely voters and asked them about the spread of anti-LGBT+ legislation across the US.

While the dangerous and ignorant conflation of homosexuality and LGBT+ identities with paedophilia goes back decades, there has been a recent surge in Republicans and religious conservatives using “grooming” language to describe LGBT-inclusive education, or just queer folk in general.

There has been an extreme increase in anti-LGBTQ accounts pushing the hateful attacks equating LGBTQ people with child "groomers" and "pedophiles." While an old attack line, it's been brought back with alarming speed.