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Bette Midler faces backlash for “anti-trans” tweet: “No one is erasing women”

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Bette Midler fans are calling on the Hocus Pocus star to not “buy into the rhetoric” that women’s rights are at odds with trans equality.

It comes after the 76-year-old posted a tweet on 4 July which claimed that women are being erased: “WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name!

They don’t call us ‘women’ anymore; they call us ‘birthing people’ or ‘menstruators’, and even ‘people with vaginas’! Don’t let them erase you!

Every human on earth owes you!” Admirers of Midler were quick to express their disappointment in the actress. “Really disappointed in this as a trans man and a Bette Midler fan,” one person responded. “Bette, including trans men in the conversation about reproductive health does not harm women.

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