Lady Gaga addresses backlash over Dylan Mulvaney Women’s Day comment
Lady Gaga clarified her stance on anti-trans hateful comments after Dylan Mulvaney posted on Instagram
Lady Gaga has finally opened up about the recent controversy surrounding Dylan Mulvaney's Women's Day post.
The Blood Mary singer clarified her stance on anti-trans hateful comments after Mulvaney posted on Instagram on International Women’s Day.
Gaga took to her Instagram account, to share the statement alongside the picture with an American TikTok personality.
The statement kicked off with, “t’s appalling to me that a post about National Women’s Day by Dylan Mulvaney and me would be met with such vitriol and hatred.”
While slamming the newspaper reporting she called it, “reporting on hatred but calling it ‘backlash,’” she ascribed that “hatred is hatred, and this kind of hatred is violence.”
Gaga added, “‘Backlash’ would imply that people who love or respect Dylan and me didn’t like something we did. This is not backlash. This is hatred.”
But the Shallow hitmaker expressed no surprise, “given the immense work that it’s obvious we still have to do as a society to make room for transgender lives to be cherished and upheld by all of us.”
Gaga perceived, defensive in this moment, not only of Dylan but of the trans community who are persistent and stand strong amid facing constant struggle.
“I certainly do not speak for this community, but I have something to say,” she added.
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Gag, 32, continued “I hope all women will come together to honour us ALL for International Women’s Day, and may we do that always until THE DAY that all women are celebrated equally. That all people are celebrated equally.”
The Judas singer also expressed her hopes for better days where “all gender identities are celebrated on whichever holiday speaks” as “all gender identities and races deserve peace and dignity.”
Gaga concluded, “May we all come together and be loving, accepting, warm, welcoming. May we all stand and honour the complexity and challenge of trans life.”
“I love people too much to allow hatred to be referred to as backlash. People deserve better,” she added.
