- Yesterday, when a transphobe dug out an ugly tweet I wrote 9yrs ago, I apologized for transphobia
- My apology stands
- This 👇🏽from the day before my tweet gives background
- My tweet was about a model - in a bra ad - who ID’d as a man at the time & came out as trans 2yrs later
- My apology stands
- This 👇🏽from the day before my tweet gives background
- My tweet was about a model - in a bra ad - who ID’d as a man at the time & came out as trans 2yrs later
- I’ve learned from people who knew Andreja Pejić that only close friends knew at the time of the ad that she had transitioned. It was made public in 2013
- I did not know
- I learned from a Dutch trans woman (the ad was in the Netherlands) that the ad meant a lot to her in 2011
- I did not know
- I learned from a Dutch trans woman (the ad was in the Netherlands) that the ad meant a lot to her in 2011
- I’m glad everything I wrote yesterday in my apology is there for the record to explain why I fight vs transphobia today
- this is about more than what I did not know at the time
- I can imagine it took Andreja a few yrs to come out because of transphobia
- this is about more than what I did not know at the time
- I can imagine it took Andreja a few yrs to come out because of transphobia
- I am saying all this today because I know I hurt trans women with my 2011 tweet and for that I am sorry.
- I’m also sharing what I knew then and what I know now about Andreja because TERFs point to that tweet & say “See! Back then you believed in what we believe!” I did not
- I’m also sharing what I knew then and what I know now about Andreja because TERFs point to that tweet & say “See! Back then you believed in what we believe!” I did not
Here’s what I wrote yesterday.
