This was #LesbianVisibilityWeek, flooding Twitter with happy lesbian posts. GLAAD made it clear that lesbian visibility should be inclusive of trans lesbians.
"We celebrate and center all lesbians, both cis and trans, while also showing solidarity with all LGBTQ+ women and nonbinary people." @LindaRiley8 #LesbianVisibilityWeek https://t.co/JcKcFYNqT6
— GLAAD (@glaad) April 27, 2022
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But it also served as a reminder that some lesbians aren’t here for everyone’s visibility. Trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) and other “gender-critical” feminist hopped onto the trending hashtag, adding some of their current favorites like #AdultHumanFemale and #SexMatters.
What is a lesbian? #LesbianVisibility #AdultHumanFemale #GetTheLOut #SameSex pic.twitter.com/0MBM6aKL3y
— Liza Cowan (@LizaCowanDesign) April 25, 2022
TERFs also took the opportunity to pile on a Libs of TikTok effort to accuse LGBTQ suicide hotline provider The Trevor Project of grooming children.
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This is of course going around TERFy circles and it’s basically a screed about how bad the Trevor Project apparently is. But never notes that what this mom did was fake being a teen to call a suicide hotline. It’s not therapy. pic.twitter.com/T9ESZ9gynk
— Mx. D. E. Anderson (@diannaeanderson) April 28, 2022
Helping to boost that transphobic content was none other than new Twitter owner Elon Musk.
Elon Musk platformed a cartoon by Colin Wright, the man who gets his rocks off attacking and smearing a suicide hotline. Colin wants LGBTQ youth to die.
All of this transphobia is connected. pic.twitter.com/EwPHGGRvB2
— Alejandra Caraballo 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 (@Esqueer_) April 29, 2022
Musk’s transphobia is nothing new, but it has attracted new attention since his ex, Grimes, starting dating Chelsea Manning.
bro @elonmusk really spent 44 billion to buy a social media platform just to make transphobia allowed on it because his ex is dating a trans woman now.
can you imagine being so completely impotent.
— logan (@lognspce) April 28, 2022
Chelsea Manning threw her own shade.
— Chelsea E. Manning (@xychelsea) April 21, 2022
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