Lady Gaga is speaking out after her International Womens Day post with actor and TikTok influencer Dylan Mulvaney was inundated with anti-LGBTQ+ commentary.

On Monday, the 13-time Grammy winner lambasted the online vitriol that Mulvaney, who is transgender, had received for sharing a photo of the two together just days earlier. She also called out media outlets for mischaracterizing the appalling response to the image.

When I see a newspaper reporting on hatred but calling it backlash I feel it is important to clarify that hatred is hatred, and this kind of hatred is violence, Gaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, wrote on Instagram while resharing Mulvaneys photo.

Backlash would imply that people who love or respect Dylan and me didnt like something we did, the pop star wrote. This is not backlash. This is hatred.

Mulvaney, who last year was surrounded by a media firestorm after taking part in a high-profile partnership with Bud Light, originally shared her photo with Gaga on Instagram on March 8 to acknowledge International Womens Day.