Bette Midler defends her social posts criticized as 'transphobic'

Bette Midler defends her recent comments concerning women's rights that many LGBTQ activists have slammed as transphobic.

"They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even ‘people with vaginas’!" the 76-year-old actor tweeted.Angela Weiss / AFP via Getty Images fileActor Bette Midler on Tuesday defended her recent comments concerning women's rights that many LGBTQ activists have slammed as transphobic.

Midler's tweet accrued over 100,000 likes. Simultaneously, the online backlash was swift and pointed. "Bette Midler being a TERF despite getting her start playing at gay bathhouses is a reminder that being progressive is like doing the dishes," queer artistTuesday."You’re never really *done* with it. There’s gonna be new dishes to do tomorrow and you have to keep doing them every day."

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