Killing Kiwi Farms Won’t Stop Transphobia

But here’s what will.

Flags representing LGBT pride, the USA, and trans pride flying outdoors at a park in San Francisco, August 2016. Photo by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Kiwi Farms is an online community dedicated to mocking and harassing transgender individuals and other marginalized people. I say “community” rather than website or forum because, as of this writing, the Farms’ official online presence has effectively been banished from the Internet.