Claim: The right is claiming that Charlie Kirk and his wife, Erika Kirk are transgender individuals

Question

People are “transvestigating” Charlie Kirk and his recent widow Erika, with online posts circulating that claim both members of the former couple were, and are, trans. This is a pretty insane claim but I still wanted to see what possible evidence there could be. 

“Erik(a) kirk, straight collar bones, his legs aren’t normal female anatomy either, jaw line is male, smaller hips then shoulders, thigh gap, that is a man. as most pageant winners are,” Was written in a “Transvestigation” facebook group. They also claimed that Charlie Kirk clearly had an Adam’s apple implanted, pointing to its small size.

GLADD notes that the whole idea of Transvestigation is considered dehumanizing hate-speech. Ironically something similar to Kirk’s own beliefs who himself said that trans people were “throwing a middle finger to god”. 

So while highly unlikely i think debunking these extreme conspiracy theories can help us understand where these harmful ideologies stem from.

Answer 1

This article claims that the Right side of politics, specifically "transvestigators" are cliaming that Charlie Kirk and his wife Erika are part of the transgender community. The article backs its claims up by using people's posts from twitter who seem to beleive Erika Kirk's features like her jawline and hips resemble the ones of someone born in a males body. The most noteable evidence seems to be from a specific facebook group called "Transvestigators Disclosure NOW" with over 53,000 followers that discussed the topic. The article goes on to talk about how these claims are not based off of real evidence and more so out of transphobia and mysoginy. While this article does provide some evidence of  people beleiving these claims, social media is not always the most reliable and the beleif does not seem to be very widespread. There is also no direct evidence connecting it to the right side of the political party. I also think the claim is misleading in the sence that it seems like the right as a whole beleives this when in reality it seems to be a very small population. I found one other article from a website called Them, but overall it does not seem to be a very discussed topic. This claim seems to be exaggerated and misleading because in reality not many people actually beleive Charlie Kirk and Erika and transgender, and there is no direct corrolation to the right.

Source: https://www.them.us/story/charlie-erika-kirk-transvestigator-trans-transvestigation