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Post by: Jessica_Rose on November 17, 2025, 02:56:01 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on November 17, 2025, 02:56:01 PM
Trans commissioner endures viscious attacks after being mocked by right-wing outlet
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/trans-commissioner-endures-viscious-attacks-after-being-mocked-by-right-wing-outlet/
Faefyx Collington (17 Nov 2025)
Out Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D) appointed Giselle Byrd to the state's Commission on the Status of Women on August 20, but it was only in the last week that the right took notice. After social media posts, right-wing hit pieces filled with transphobic and misogynistic language, and one state senator piling on, the commission says Byrd is now receiving death threats.
"[Commissioner Giselle Byrd] was the subject of a particularly vicious online attack that incited hateful language and violent rhetoric against one of our own," the MA Commission on the Status of Women (MASSCSW) said in a statement. "We stand in outrage with our fellow Commissioner Byrd and remain committed to protecting the safety of not only our state and regional commissioners, but of every marginalized individual threatened by violence both online and in person."
MASSCSW, established in 1998, is a group of 19 volunteers who are appointed by the Governor, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Caucus of Women Legislators. The mission statement makes it clear that "The Commission represents and recognizes all women, regardless of their age, race, color, creed, abilities, language, socio-economic status, immigration status, sexual orientation, or gender assigned at birth."
Giselle Byrd is the commission's first trans woman of color and is the executive and artistic director of the Theater Offensive, whose mission is "liberating art by, for, and about queer and trans people of color."
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/trans-commissioner-endures-viscious-attacks-after-being-mocked-by-right-wing-outlet/
Faefyx Collington (17 Nov 2025)
Out Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey (D) appointed Giselle Byrd to the state's Commission on the Status of Women on August 20, but it was only in the last week that the right took notice. After social media posts, right-wing hit pieces filled with transphobic and misogynistic language, and one state senator piling on, the commission says Byrd is now receiving death threats.
"[Commissioner Giselle Byrd] was the subject of a particularly vicious online attack that incited hateful language and violent rhetoric against one of our own," the MA Commission on the Status of Women (MASSCSW) said in a statement. "We stand in outrage with our fellow Commissioner Byrd and remain committed to protecting the safety of not only our state and regional commissioners, but of every marginalized individual threatened by violence both online and in person."
MASSCSW, established in 1998, is a group of 19 volunteers who are appointed by the Governor, Senate President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Caucus of Women Legislators. The mission statement makes it clear that "The Commission represents and recognizes all women, regardless of their age, race, color, creed, abilities, language, socio-economic status, immigration status, sexual orientation, or gender assigned at birth."
Giselle Byrd is the commission's first trans woman of color and is the executive and artistic director of the Theater Offensive, whose mission is "liberating art by, for, and about queer and trans people of color."