Girl Gaga Stands Up for Transgender Group Throughout Grammy Speech: ‘Trans Individuals Deserve Love’

Because the singer took the stage on the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles to simply accept her Grammy with Bruno Mars for Greatest Pop Duo Efficiency for his or her music “Die With A Smile,” she declared trans persons are “not invisible.”

“It is such an honor to sing for all of you. I simply wish to say tonight that trans persons are not invisible. Trans individuals deserve love,” Gaga stated onstage. “The queer neighborhood deserves to be lifted up. Music is love.”

Her assertion on transgender rights led to a standing ovation from the room.

Whereas Gaga didn’t tackle POTUS in her speech, her feedback do come after President Donald Trump took intention on the trans neighborhood by signing an govt order on his first day in workplace rolling again trans and LGBTQ protections.

He claimed “‘feminine’ means an individual belonging, at conception, to the intercourse that produces the big reproductive cell,” and “‘male’ means an individual belonging, at conception, to the intercourse that produces the small reproductive cell.”

The Trump administration has additionally gone after transgender members of the U.S. navy, with an govt order saying being trans “conflicts with a soldier’s dedication to an honorable, truthful and disciplined life-style, even in a single’s private life.”

Throughout his inauguration, he additionally acknowledged that there have been solely two sexes, female and male.

Girl Gaga, after all, has lengthy been an ally, an icon and voice for the queer neighborhood.