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27 thought-provoking tweets highlighting some of the worst LGBTQ microaggressions

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Modern society has a macro issue with microaggressions, which psychologist Derald W. Sue described as “the everyday slights, indignities, put-downs, and insults that people of color, women, LGBT populations or those who are marginalized experiences in their day-to-day interactions with people.”

Per Vox, it was Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce who coined the term “microaggressions” as he discussed the “incessant and cumulative … assaults to Black dignity and Black hope.” Pierce added,“almost all black–white racial interactions are characterized by white put-downs, done in automatic, preconscious, or unconscious fashion.”

After surveying more than 59,000 workers—more than 4,000 of whom were LGBTQ+—McKinsey revealed in 2022 that nearly one-third of LGBTQ+ employees have experienced a microaggression in the workplace, with trans women and nonbinary women among the most affected subsets.

Related: Do you exhibit ‘asexual microaggressions’ and not even know it? (Hint: Probably)

“Microaggressions have the potential of making people feel or believe that they are devalued,” Jess Zonana, M.D., a psychiatrist and a founding faculty sponsor of the free LGBTQ+ clinic Weill Cornell Medicine Wellness Qlinic, told Health Matters in 2021. “They have cumulative effects on one’s self-esteem and can breed chronic mistrust, compound the effects of past traumatic discriminatory situations, and be a risk factor to higher rates of mental health difficulties.”

On Twitter, users have been calling out homophobic and transphobic microaggressions in tweets ranging from thought-provoking to (very) tongue-in-cheek.

Here are some of the best tweets about the some of the worst LGBTQ microaggressions …

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