Posted on 05/28/2023 9:34:20 PM PDT by Morgana
Twilight star Rachelle Lefevre hit back at the hateful comments she received online after revealing she can no longer take her non-binary seven-year-old to Target after it moved its Pride collection to the back of stores.
Lefevre, 44, - who played Victoria in the franchise's second movie, New Moon - first took to her Instagram to call out the retail store as she appeared to choke back tears as she thought about how it would affect her seven-year-old child.
She then posted a follow-up video telling her critics that she knows 'how much pain you have to be in to hate that hard.'
'I know the kind of hate you have to put inside you to numb the hurt,' she said in the video. 'So instead of hating back, I just choose to know how much pain you're in.'
It comes after Target moved the display to the back of some Southern stores after it made waves for its 'tuck-friendly' swimwear. In the span of just 10 days, the company lost more than $10billion in market capitalization as it continues to face backlash for the Pride-themed merchandise.
Lefevre accused Target of 'trying to erase' the LGBTQ community, including her non-binary seven-year-old, after her local store moved their Pride merchandise display to the back.
It's not clear which store she visited, but the actress appears to be currently based in the Nashville, Tennessee area.
'So in my post about Target, I mentioned that my kid was non-binary,' she began in her latest Instagram video as she thanked those who supported her.
The actress said she initially posted a video 'punching back' at the hateful commenters, but then deleted it and replaced it with another one saying she decided to 'choose to know how much pain you're in.'
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snowflakes melt. such is reality
The pain I feel is considerable for a dependent and trusting seven year old child being raised by a criminal, who, instead of fulfilling her role as a parent who guides and helps her child through phases many children go through, endeavors to imprison that child and destroy their life.
That is what fills me with pain.
I know exactly what she means. My local pharmacy recently did some renovations and now the shampoo is kept where they used to keep shaving supplies, and deodorants have move to where the foot care used to be. So much hate. So much pain. It's about as bad as the Holocaust.
She better not want what she's hoping for. Magic Johnson's kid -
Dwayne Wade's kid -
There are no 7-year old non-binary people. Only children of insane delusional idiots.
She should be arrested for child abuse. The poor kid is not going to understand that he/she is a boy/girl. And the damn propaganda channels give me no clue S to which it is
This is purely for publicity (and it worked) in the hope of getting more acting jobs.
A non-binary or trans child is the same as a vegetarian cat -- someone else is making the decision.
She is scarring this child for life. This really is a form of Munchausen by Proxy.
No one can convince me that 7 year kid old can decide their gender. Their deluded mother is is deciding and sadly will condemn the child to a life of mental instability and possibly gender mutilation.
Boo hoo!
Unfit parents play along with this perverted madness and, the woman in the article is unfit. She's unfit to raise goldfish much less, a child.
It’s not hate, it’s MORALS!
Her seven year old is hexadecimal.
Let that sink in.
The true epidemic, now manifesting child abuse.
Exactly. 100% agree with your post.
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