Elon Musk Is Weaponizing Twitter Against Transgender People

A detailed look at how Musk acts with intentionality to target the transgender community

Robert Stribley
Doomscroll
Published in
12 min readMay 11

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MidJourney created image of Elon Musk in shadows looking at an iPhone held before his face. His face is lit by the iPhone.
Elon Musk on Twitter as imagined by MidJourney

On April 20th, as the owner of Twitter scarcely for 6 months, Elon Musk followed through on his promise to yank the once-coveted “blue checkmark” from people who weren’t paying for it. Remarkably, on that same day of…

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Robert Stribley
Doomscroll

Writer. Photographer. UXer. Creative Director. Interests: immigration, privacy, human rights, design. UX: Publicis Groupe. Teach: SVA. Aussie/American. He/him.