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Trump Supporter Chadwick Moore Says He Was Booted Off Grindr
Chadwick Moore was punished by the app thanks to his antagonistic -- some might say, transphobic -- profile.Â
July 27 2018 10:41 AM EST
July 27 2018 10:42 AM EST
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Chadwick Moore was punished by the app thanks to his antagonistic -- some might say, transphobic -- profile.Â
Gay writer Chadwick Moore is furious after Grindr censored his profile, ostensibly because the Trump supporter insists there are only two genders.
\u201c.@Grindr just shut down my profile for the second time this year because under the \u201cGender\u201d question (weird af) I wrote \u201cThere are only 2.\u201d @grindr, which of those four words are \u201cbanned\u201d? So funny!\u201d— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick Moore) 1532386892
Moore -- who answered the app's gender identity question by writing "there are only two" -- took to Twitter to lash back at the site, accusing it of facilitating sex work and illegal drug use. He then tried to get the FBI to investigate the popular gay hook-up app.
\u201c.@Grindr we\u2019d love to see your internal company guidelines on postmodernism, gender theory, and banned words. Are you a gay dating app, or another tech firm engaged in thought-policing at the behest of radical, unfuckable, far-left activists?\u201d— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick Moore) 1532386892
\u201cI mean, god-forbid someone challenge post-modernist fake-science on a dating app, the same dating app that is a notorious conduit of prostitution, illegal drug use, illegal drug sales, and the spread of disease. I dunno does the @fbi need to look into what happens on @grindr?\u201d— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick Moore) 1532386892
Moore's gender answer on Grindr, which erases the identities of nonbinary and genderqueer people, is not the first time he's courted controversy. Moore previously wrote a piece on Milo Yiannopoulos for Out (owned by the same company as The Advocate) that was critiqued as a sympathetic profile on the disgraced alt-right troll. He then came out as a Republican and publicly trashed trans rights. He has also downplayed homophobia and racism, and said the following to Fox News' Tucker Carlson in January: "I was having a conversation with a woman not too long ago about this -- a young, upper-middle-class black woman -- and she was talking about how badly she gets treated on the street here in New York, and I said to her, 'What if you lived for one day as a white woman and you were treated the exact same way and people were just as rude to you? What then?'"
\u201cAll the haters and gay unfuckable losers don\u2019t seem to understand that the only reason I remained on @Grindr is because I had so many lovely conversations with closet-Trump supporters \ud83e\udd37\ud83c\udfff\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\u201d— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick Moore) 1532650308