The Right Wants to Boycott Hershey’s Because a Trans Woman Was in Its Ad

Right-wingers across North America are harassing a transgender woman and threatening to boycott Hershey’s after the chocolate company included her in a PR campaign to “celebrate women changing the future.” 

The vitriol aimed at 27-year-old Fae Johnstone is just the latest attempt by the right to paint massive corporations as “woke” over the issue of visibility for minority groups, particularly transgender people. And it comes as right-wing legislators and commentators not only attempt to further restrict access to healthcare for trans adults as well as children but aggressively attack the...