First Dutch Transgender MP Quits Twitter After Hate Speech

Lisa van Ginneken

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The Netherlands’s first transgender member of parliament said that she is quitting Twitter after a barrage of hateful comments that she says undermine healthy debate.

Lisa van Ginneken, a member of the Dutch parliament since March last year, said the popular social media website lacks nuance and has become a “place of hate.”