What Is The 'Underground Transgender Mafia' And Is It A Real Liz Truss Quote? Fact-Checking The Meme

What Is The 'Underground Transgender Mafia' And Is It A Real Liz Truss Quote? Fact-Checking The Meme

Have you ever heard of Underground Transgender Mafia? Neither have we until a fake quote recently ascribed to former UK Prime Minster Liz Truss went viral this week thanks to a satirical political account. Who posted the fake quote and what are people's reactions? Find out more in our brief explainer.

Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin "Nobody expects the Underground Transgender Mafia"

What Is ‘Underground Transgender Mafia’?

Our best efforts to discover any traces of the real underground transgender mob have borne no fruit, so the we can confidently say that the Underground Transgender Mafia is a catchphrase that has been used in a satirical post about British conservative politician Liz Truss by X / Twitter account Politics For You (@PoliticoForYou) on September 30th, 2024. The post by the 29,000-follower strong account marked "🚨🚨🚨 SATIRE" on its profile page managed to gather over one million views before it got a community note, and expectedly not everyone bothered to check if the quote was real as long as it sounded plausible.

f POLITICS Politics For You FOR You @PoliticoForYou BREAKING ⭑ Liz Truss claims “Underground transgender mafia” were plotting against her and brought her leadership to an end. "They're the ones really running this country." 7:59 AM - Sep 30, 2024 977.4K Views

What likely made the quote even more believable was the recent real quote by Donald Trump, who during his debate with Kamala Harris spoke accused her of trying to perform "transgender operations on illegal aliens" in prisons.

yolanda fister @yolandafister Follow ... the aliens after their transgender operations 9:45 PM⚫ Sep 10, 2024 5.2M Views


What Are 'Underground Transgender Mafia' Memes?

As the fake quote went viral on X and quite a few users believed it that was real, many took the chance to mock Liz Truss over something she didn't even say. Some of the memes that followed the post cast doubt on Truss' mental health, as the quote, were it real, sounded a little insane.

And is this "underground transgender mafia" in the room with us right now?

Others were quick to use the catchphrase in various meme formats, ranging from Dad, Are You in the Mafia from The Sopranos to I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords from The Simpsons.

Alexander Fox @AlexanderFoxEtc "Are you in the Underground Transgender Mafia?” ...

I, FOR ONE, WELCOME OUR NEW TRANS MAFIA OVERLORDS imgflip.com


The wave of memes has been quite reminiscent of two other recent cases when something that politicians didn't even do became a meme thanks to spread of misinformation, namely J.D. Vance's Couch Hoax and Tim Walz Horse Story Hoax.

J.D. Vance when she wants to get on top: SWNS 111



For the full history of Underground Transgender Mafia, be sure to check out Know Your Meme's encyclopedia entry for more information.




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