Elon Musk Once Again Kicks Off Pride Month With Transphobia

The face of a man whose kids definitely still talk to him

It’s the beginning of June, which traditionally is the time when corporations dress their logos up in rainbow hues in either an earnest effort to stand with marginalized queer folks (rare and getting rarer) or a cynical ploy to part people from their money (much more common).

Elon Musk, leader of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter, is not a traditionalist. For two years running now, he’s opened Pride month with a different tactic: Making very loud, very public anti-LGBT statements. But while last year’s effort at least seemed friendly on its face, this year Musk has upped the ante: Amplifying a documentary that even Twitter’s own content moderators flagged as transphobic hate speech.

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