Dylan Mulvaney is speaking out about the public support from Lady Gaga as of late.
As of late Monday, the star released a long statement on Instagram about Mulvaney, who shared a series of photos with Gaga last week in celebration of International Women’s Day.
After social media users left mass amount of comments on the influencers’ post with transphobic comment, news outlets picked up the story and labeled the responses as “backlash.”
Yet, Gaga took to socials to clear the air on the situation and made it clear that this indeed was framed out of context.
“It’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,” she wrote. “When I see a newspaper reporting on hatred but calling it ‘backlash’ I feel it is important to clarify that hatred is hatred, and this kind of hatred is violence. ‘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.”
Gaga continued her post by saying that although she “certainly [does] not speak for” the trans community, she admires their “endless grace and inspiration in the face of constant degradation, intolerance, and physical, verbal, and mental violence.”
Speaking on the post, Mulvaney said she was happy to have the support of one of her biggest inspirations.
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The “Days of Girlhood” singer stated, “Gaga is my diva. I mean I had like, the ‘Born This Way’ poster on my wall in high school, I went to the Monster Ball, and to now have my biggest role model as someone I’m texting as friend is like, I can’t even believe this life is real, but I also know it is so worth living.”
She also went on to add, “She’s everything and to have someone publicly step like that as an ally means the world.”
Mulvaney’s original post with Lady Gaga included a series of photos of the pair posing together, as well as a video of them embracing and telling the camera, “Put this on your vision board, world.” Mulvaney shared the post on Friday, captioning it simply, “Happy international women’s day.”
In her post today, Gaga wrote: “I hope all women will come together to honor 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. A day where people of all gender identities are celebrated on whichever holiday speaks to them. Because people of all gender identities and races deserve peace and dignity.”
“May we all come together and be loving, accepting, warm, welcoming,” she concluded. “May we all stand and honor the complexity and challenge of trans life—that we do not know, but can seek to understand and have compassion for. I love people too much to allow hatred to be referred to as ‘backlash.’ People deserve better.”
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The transgender influencer and TikTok star, released the music video for her new song on Wednesday, which features Mulvaney dancing in a mini dress, a crop top, a green polka dot dress and a hot pink negligee.
In her video on Wednesday announcing her new single, Mulvaney said, “This single came from my desire to reclaim my relationship to femininity and celebrate trans joy. I had never written a song before, but I knew I wanted it to feel like the opening of an early 2000s romantic comedy.”
