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"ref": "2018 August 10, Mack Lamoureux, quoting Cami Knodel, “We Asked Flat Earthers What The Dumbest Conspiracy Is”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-11-28",
"text": "The conspiracies I think are really bad is the ones that come from elitism and say that one group is better than another, so that's what I think is really stupid. Another thing that gets me are transvestigations, conspiracies about people's gender, like Justin Bieber being a girl and Miley Cyrus being a guy. It's just so stupid.",
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"ref": "2018 December 14, Ana Valens, “Dude gets dunked on for claiming Keira Knightley's 'six pack' makes her trans”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2022-07-18",
"text": "It didn't take long for users to point out that EmergentReality has no idea about the various shapes, sizes, and anatomical variations that both trans and cis women experience. \"The Great Transvestigation strikes again, folks,\" Twitter user @indigowhiskey wrote. \"It's been over 3 hours and I still don't know what an Adonis belt is.\"",
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"text": "[…] and \"transvestigations\" refers to attempts to expose celebrities (such as Madonna and Mike Tyson) as secretly transgender.]",
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"ref": "2022 July 18, Miles Klee, “Unhinged 'Transvestigators' Think They're the Only Cis People Left.”, in MEL Magazine, archived from the original on 2022-12-18",
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