'The terror is over': Mom of trans girl featured on National Geographic says KiwiFarms doxxed her
On the heels of the content network Cloudflare dropping the troll site KiwiFarms from its internet security service, one mother’s history with the site shows exactly why it should have taken moments, not years, to see this kind of decisive action. Debi Jackson, a mother and transgender rights advocate, tweeted on Monday night that her interaction with the site—more accurately, her then-9-year-old child's history with it—changed their lives forever. Jackson’s transgender daughter, Avery Jackson, was featured on the cover of National Geographic in 2016 in a historic move to feature Avery as the first trans person on the magazine’s cover. Editor-in-Chief Susan Goldberg wrote in a letter to readers at the time that Avery was one of 80 9-year-olds photographed in eight countries for its piece on the gender revolution. Avery was selected for the cover because of the strength and pride she exuded in her portrait. "We thought that, in a glance, she summed up the concept of 'Gender Revolution,'" Goldberg wrote.
KiwiFarms apparently had another plan for the child, Jackson detailed in a story shared on Twitter.
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