Degeneracy

Degeneracy is a term used in varying contexts, but most often within a modern American religious, right-wing/conservative context, in reference to the promotion of acts deemed to be (within such framework) dirty, impure, and early evidence of civilizational failure. As such the nature of this term, or at least its common usage, is highly subjective and variable by interpretation according to which group is using it, whose framework or culture is being threatened by that which is labeled "degeneracy". To this end, it is often used against groups which are deemed a threat to the aforementioned (modern American, right-wing/conservative) culture, including but not limited to LGBT, transgender people, MAPs, other sexual minorities, and their allies.

While degeneracy has no set meaning within western laws, those whose identities may be non-normative and/or conflict with "sex" laws are often described as degenerates.