Southern Poverty Law Center: 2023 CAPTAIN report

In 2023, Southern Poverty Law Center released a report titled Combating Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Through Accessible Informative Narratives (CAPTAIN). It traces the origins of 21st-century anti-transgender extremism.

Contributors

• R.G. Cravens (editor)
• Quinnehtukqut McLamore
• Lee Leveille
• Emerson Hodges
• Sophie Wunderlich
• Lydia Bates

Profiled groups

The report analyzed the following organizations:

Research & Practice

• Alliance for Therapeutic Choice and Scientific Integrity
• American College of Pediatricians
• Beyond WPATH
• Gender Dysphoria Alliance
• Gender Exploratory Therapy Association
• Genspect
• Inspired Teen Therapy
• Institute for Comprehensive Gender Dysphoria Research
• International Association of Therapists for Desisters and Detransitioners
• International Federation for Therapeutic Counselling and Choice
• National Task Force for Therapy Equality
• Pediatric & Adolescent Gender Dysphoria Working Group
• Rethink Identity Medicine Ethics
• Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine
• Transgender Trend
• Youth Trans Critical Professionals

Narrative Manipulation

• Advocates Protecting Children
• Archives of Sexual Behavior Campaign
• California Family Council [listed as California Policy Council]
• Cardinal Support Network
• Changed Movement
• Christian Medical and Dental Association
• Concerned Women for America
• Detrans Help
• Do No Harm
• Family Research Council
• Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
• Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network
• Gender Health Query
• Gays Against Groomers / Trans Against Groomers
• Kelsey Coalition
• LGB Alliance
• Moms 4 Liberty
• Moral Revolution
• Our Duty
• Parents of ROGD Kids
• Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans
• Partners for Ethical Care
• Ruth Institute
• Women’s Bill of Rights
• Women’s Declaration International
• Women’s Liberation Front

Legal Advocacy & Think Tank

• Alliance Defending Freedom
• American Enterprise Institute
• American Principles Project
• Center for Urban Renewal and Education
• Child and Parental Rights Campaign
• Council for National Policy
• Discovery Institute
• Ethics & Public Policy Center
• Heritage Foundation
• Independent Women’s Forum
• Leadership Institute
• Liberty Counsel
• Manhattan Institute
• Open Therapy Institute
• Project 2025

Resources

Southern Poverty Law Center (splcenter.org)

• Combating Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience
• splcenter.org/resources/reports/captain
• Introduction
• splcenter.org/captain/introduction
• Manufacturing the doubt that fuels the network
• splcenter.org/captain/disinformation
• Timeline: Building a Pseudoscience Network
• splcenter.org/resources/reports/timeline-building-pseudoscience-network
• Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network
• splcenter.org/captain/defining-pseudoscience-network
• Foundations of the Contemporary Anti-LGBTQ+ Pseudoscience Network
• splcenter.org/captain/foundations
• Merging Pseudoscience and Politics
• splcenter.org/captain/pseudoscience-politics
• Policing Sex, Sexuality and Gender
• splcenter.org/captain/policing