Elon Musk can’t cease tweeting anti-trans content material.
Over the weekend, Musk, who owns the massive social media platform, praised England’s new restrictions on puberty blockers for trans youth, promoted tweets with disparaging imagery about trans ladies in sports activities and peddled dangerous rhetoric about gender-affirming look after minors.
On Friday, England’s Nationwide Well being Providers introduced it could restrict the usage of puberty blockers to kids who’re engaged in clinic trials. Musk signaled his approval by tweeting, “UK now understands. America will too.”
Then, on Sunday, Musk commented on a tweet that raised issues a couple of California invoice that might contemplate a guardian’s affirmation of a kid’s gender identification in custody proceedings.
“State-mandated sterilization of youngsters is completely contemptible! Disgrace on those that push it,” Musk wrote.
This false rhetoric round sterilization has been peddled by right-wing politicians and officers prior to now and has been leveraged in arguments calling for the restriction of look after trans minors. Final yr, Texas Legal professional Basic Ken Paxton misrepresented this care in an opinion through which he argued that gender-affirming look after minors constitutes baby abuse.
Hormone blockers don’t trigger infertility. They’re the most typical therapies for trans youth and are used briefly to delay the event of secondary intercourse traits throughout puberty.
After a right-wing commentator criticized a photograph of the White Home with a Satisfaction flag draped over the balcony over the weekend, Musk commented that “their priorities are clear,” becoming a member of a refrain of conservatives freaking out over President Joe Biden’s assist of Satisfaction month.
The transphobic rhetoric is a considerably current growth for Musk, who was till not too long ago the CEO of Twitter and is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. In 2018, he boasted that his automobile developer Tesla scored 100/100 on LGBTQ equality on the Human Rights Marketing campaign’s company equality survey.
However the billionaire has since made it clear that he’s aligning himself with anti-trans pundits who’re significantly involved with ― and hellbent on disrupting ― the personal selections trans kids make round affirming their gender identification. He has given us a “significantly unrestrained window into his private politics” since Satisfaction Month started, HuffPost reporter Sara Boboltz wrote earlier in June.
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During the last two weeks, Musk has praised a plethora of transphobic tweets, together with one with a rainbow swastika, promoted a dangerous documentary by right-wing commentator Matt Walsh and mentioned on the platform that he would foyer to “criminalize” medical suppliers who look after trans kids.
The proliferation of Musk’s anti-trans content material on Twitter comes on the heels of the corporate’s removing of protections for trans customers.
In April, Twitter quietly rolled again its coverage towards “focused misgendering or deadnaming of transgender people.” It has additionally allowed content material with hateful messaging to stay on the positioning with solely warning labels, which prior to now can be eliminated by moderators.
Critics have mentioned the removing of those insurance policies have made the positioning much less secure for trans customers.
