KEY POINTS
- Social media groups have circulated pageant photos of Erika Kirk as supposed "evidence."
- Some conspiracists have extended claims to her late husband Charlie Kirk,.
- The movement routinely merges transphobia with antisemitic narratives, including claims about Mossad and global "elites."
Erika Kirk, widow of Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk, has become the latest focus of an increasingly visible and transphobic online conspiracy movement known as 'transvestigation.'
