Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

Library Deletes Pride Tweets About Fish That Can Change Its Sex After Transphobes Freak Out

humphead wrasse
ultramarinfoto/Getty Images

The British Library attempted to honor Pride Month with a tweet about the Māori Wrasse, which can change its sex from female to male—but were hit with anger from transphobes.

The British Library celebrated LGBTQ+ Pride Month by tweeting about the Māori wrasse, a fish that can change its sex from female to male.

If you were asking yourself what else is left that could possibly offend transphobes, wonder no more.


The answer is a fish.

A fish.

The British Library wrote:

“This #Pride month, let us tell you about the Māori wrasse (also known as the humphead wrasse).
"But its wondrous forehead isn’t the most magnificent thing about this fish—they are protogynous hermaphrodites, which means the females can later change sex to become males.”

@britishlibrary/Twitter

Transphobic trolls freaked out that a library would post educational information.

Many also had to declare fish are not human.






The British Library caved to the anti-LGBTQ+ trolls—as many others have done this year *cough* Target.

They deleted their tweet.

People not triggered by piscine biology shared their disappointment.






While they did remove the fish tweet, The British Library kept their June 1 Pride post that reads:

"'Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no.'"
"'It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid...'"
"Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson."

Though this tweet has also faced anti-LGBTQ+ backlash, it remains online.

As it should.

More from Trending

Donald Trump Jr.
Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images

Don Jr. Sparks Outrage After Startup Company He Backed Scores Massive Contract With Pentagon

Donald Trump Jr. is facing criticism after The Financial Times reported that Vulcan Elements, a startup he backed, scored a $620 million government contract with the Department of Defense.

The company said the deal falls under a broader $1.4 billion collaboration with the federal government and ReElement Technologies aimed at scaling up U.S. magnet production and strengthening the domestic supply chain.

Keep ReadingShow less

People Describe The Deepest Internet 'Rabbit Hole' They've Ever Fallen Down

Who amongst us hasn't wasted HOURS of life surfing the web for things we couldn't help being intrigued by?

Going on the internet for one quick look at a sale, then staying up until sunrise trying to uncover a 50-year-old unsolved murder mystery is totally normal.

Keep ReadingShow less
Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. reunite at THR’s Women in Entertainment gala as Tom Holland — the Spider-Man she famously can’t remember — appears on the other side of the MCU universe.
Stefanie Keenan/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images; Tristan Fewings/Getty Images

Robert Downey Jr. Reveals Gwyneth Paltrow Had No Clue Who Tom Holland Was Despite Starring In Several Movies With Him

It’s been nearly six years since Gwyneth Paltrow last suited up as Pepper Potts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, yet according to Robert Downey Jr., she still struggles to tell certain Avengers apart.

Downey Jr. roasted his longtime co-star in spectacular fashion while presenting her with The Hollywood Reporter’s Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, a moment that played less like a formal tribute and more like Tony Stark gently ribbing Pepper for forgetting who Spider-Man is.

Keep ReadingShow less
Gavin Newsom; Donald Trump
Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images; Win McNamee/Getty Images

Gavin Newsom Just Hilariously Trolled President Trump's New 'Walk Of Fame' With A Brutal One Of His Own

California Governor Gavin Newsom mocked President Donald Trump by riffing off the presidential "Walk of Fame" Trump unveiled in the White House back in September, gifting us the "Presidential Walk of Fatigue" instead.

In September, Trump's assistant Margo Martin shared a video of a hallway filled with the portraits of former U.S. presidents. Martin announced that "The Presidential Walk of Fame has arrived on the West Wing Colonnade," and the video she shared pans over multiple portraits of former presidents before lingering on an image of Biden's autopen signature.

Keep ReadingShow less
Screenshot of Samantha Fulnecky
Fox News

The OU Student Who Got A Zero On Her Bible-Based Essay Was Just Honored By Republicans—Because Of Course

Samantha Fulnecky, the University of Oklahoma student who received a zero on a psychology essay about gender after using the Bible as her only source, was honored by the Oklahoma House of Representatives with a special "Citation of Recognition" this week after her complaint—which resulted in a transgender graduate student being placed on administrative leave—made headlines.

Fulnecky's instructor Mel Curth, a transgender woman, assigned her students a 650-word essay about how gender stereotypes impact societal expectations of individuals. Fulnecky instead wrote about what the Bible says about "traditional gender roles," arguing that to refer to them as "stereotypes" is "demonic."

Keep ReadingShow less