trans activist and model Munroe Bergdorf announce that she was leaving Twitter due to the incessant amount of abuse and harassment she received on the platform, I wasn’t surprised at all.Munroe declared she was ‘tired of being a punching bag’, ‘Twitter was not a safe app for trans people’ and that ‘no one should have to endure even a fraction of the abuse’ that she deals with on a daily basis.This was in response to the abuse she received on Twitter after tweeting she would be speaking at an event on International Women’s Day.
Given her large profile and passionate advocacy – having appeared on Good Morning Britain and programmes like Genderquake – I can only imagine what she’s had to go through.Simply existing as a trans person on social.