Twitter approves of Taylor Swift featuring female-to-male transgender Laith Ashley as her love interest in her new “Lavender Haze” music video.
The music video dropped at midnight on Friday and received over 600,000 ‘likes’ and 3 million views so far on YouTube.
The song is about a woman who is high on drugs when she spots a bearded weatherman on TV through a lavender haze.
Taylor and the weatherman (played by Laith) hook up and spend the night together.
The LGBT+ community is ecstatic and expressed appreciation to the pop superstar. They say Taylor’s music video is a huge step toward “normalizing” heterosexual-transgender relationships.
I was so moved by that! Taylor making a trans man of color her love interest in a video is wonderful. So happy for Laith! ?????
— Chaz Harris ? Wear A Mask (@chazharris) January 27, 2023
some swifties are being transphobic? absolutely shocking
— maia (@monesrep) January 27, 2023
an artist as huge as taylor casting a trans love interest when cinema or even tv hasnt gotten to that level of normalcy yet is so so big do y'all understand this
— ash ? (@taylgbtswift) January 26, 2023
Taylor Swift – Lavender Haze
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