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A typical post from Male State’s Telegram channel. This one, from September 30, 2021, praises a proposal to equate LGBT people, feminism and being “childfree” with extremism. For Male State and others on the far right, being ‘childfree’ is not simply an issue of personal choice but an ideological stance to be opposed.

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