Madonna Speaks Out Against the Spread of Anti-Trans ‘Mob Mentality’: ‘It Breaks My Heart’
After spending much of her career advocating on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community, pop icon Madonna is speaking out against the mistreatment of trans people everywhere.
In a post to her Instagram Stories on Thursday night (March 6), Madonna shared her candid thoughts on the current wave of anti-trans extremism making its way around the globe. “It breaks my heart to witness the pain of Trans people who are not accepted by a society that fears them because they are different,” she wrote. “How can we know what it feels like? Have we walked in their shoes?”
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The “Ray of Light” singer went on to call out politicians and pundits specifically in the U.S. leading the charge in the weaponization of ignorance against the community, saying the “Lynch mob mentality is at an all-time high.” She continued by adding that those participating in the public denigration of trans people’s identities was equally disheartening. “The excitement people get from watching people go down or be silenced, be blacklisted … is disturbing,” she wrote. “The enjoyment we get from other people’s pain is a sin.”
Closing out her thoughts, Madonna instead encouraged her followers to focus on “lifting people up and supporting anyone who is striving to be the better version of themselves.”
The star’s comments come as the Trump administration continues to dismantle federal protections for the trans community. Among the long list of things the president has done to attack trans folks since he took office again in January are a series of executive orders that call for a complete ban on transgender officers serving in the military, removing federal funding for gender-affirming care for minors and issuing a nationwide ban on trans athletes competing in women’s school sports. All three of those orders are currently being challenged.
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