Jess Hilarious is getting dragged for her response to a tiktoker who went viral for saying biological women should not ‘gatekeep periods’.
In the original video a tiktoker known as “Blessing Rose” called out cis women for being transphobic, and arrogant for thinking they ‘own periods’ and ‘womanhood’.
She said:
I mean when the transphobia just comes out the audacity and just the arrogance for cis women to believe that they own periods, that they own womanhood… you don’t! Ok! You don’t own periods, you don’t own womanhood you experience both and both are different for every person but as a cis woman it doesn’t belong to you so you cant gatekeep it.
Watch:
Jess responded to that video initially asking who will stand up for women?
Then in a no holds barred delivery she said there is no real difference between someone who has a straight jacket and the delusion present in the original video.
Watch:
Jess Hilarious says who will stand up for women pic.twitter.com/KQwQlOM46r
— Black AF News (@blackafnews) July 23, 2023
Twitter is split on their response to Jess’s video, some find her comments ignorant and have accused her of transphobia.
Others support her.
People who do not agree with Jess
I just saw that ignorant, transphobic video Jess Hilarious put out and ENOUGH! Cis women are not the only people who experience menstruation, so do trans men and non-binary ppl, but it’s irrelevant because your womanhood is not threatened by the inclusion of others. pic.twitter.com/skVetMvJpL
— Olayemi Olurin (@msolurin) July 22, 2023
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Laverne Cox was endlessly gracious to Jess Hilarious with trying to meet her where she is to educate her yet she still doing the same bullshit so whatever she’s a loser, will always be a loser, and is mad her own womanhood is seen as precarious by virtue of how she looks WHATEVER
— ⚜️Sovereign⚜️ (@sauvamemte) July 22, 2023
and
When I tweeted about Black Women and homophobia and biphobia, Jess Hilarious put me on her social media.
I was harassed for weeks.
Her transphobia isn't because she loves cis Black women.
She doesn't like any of us.
Trust me. https://t.co/VK5LwQGEhm— Optimus Fine (@sunnydaejones) July 22, 2023
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what’s most off putting about jess hilarious (aside from her name being a contradiction) is that she’s been called a man so much throughout her career that i’m sure that 1) a lot of this vitriol comes from a place of insecurity and 2) the transphobia she endorses hurts HER https://t.co/pbBgBydl1v
— 5hahem aka Dr. Durag (@shaTIRED) July 22, 2023
People that agree with Jess
I’m no Jess Hilarious fan…At all. But in this Instance she’s not wrong. Telling natural women what womanhood is or isn’t is misogyny true and true. Who tf are y’all to tell women how to feel about our identity we were born into?. Do you realize how insane y’all sound?
— A (@ArmandfrmPhilly) July 22, 2023
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Jess Hilarious said that only women get periods and the timeline is upset saying she’s transphobic? Or am i missing something else that she said ? pic.twitter.com/8RiksxIgSR
— Keisha From Belly (@amirahmonet_) July 22, 2023
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Soooooo explain to me what was wrong with what Jess Hilarious said. Cause it sounded like nothing but the truth
— Riri (@heyybigred) July 22, 2023
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I was trying to figure out how was what Jess Hilarious said transphobic, and somebody on here said “one can have a period and not identify as a woman” and that’s cool I agree with that but no matter what somebody IDENTIFIES as, BIOLOGICALLY only women have periods & that’s fact!
— DaSpaceWitch? (@DaSpaceWitch) July 22, 2023
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I don’t care about y’all being mad at Jess Hilarious. Go ahead.
My problem is with the original video she stitched because how fucking dare that person?!?
I own my womanhood because I was born with it. It and everything that comes with it are mine.
Fuck all else.
— Rae The Writer (@WriteAsRae) July 22, 2023
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Even though Jess Hilarious had a crazy delivery which became somewhat transphobic, she wasn’t lying tho
only BIOLOGICAL WOMAN(person with a REAL vagina and breasts) can get periods and have babies. Trans men can have babies cause they are BIOLOGICAL WOMEN.
— Blade Bunningham (@JornanMagic23) July 22, 2023
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Like do YOU understand how the periods you disregard is the reason for the world? Like stopppp and Jess Hilarious can be a lot of things but she's right here
— Balla $hot Calla (@22LevelsofSpace) July 22, 2023
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