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NION Women respond to the Grok AI abuse on X, showing how non-consensual sexual exploitation of women and children is being ignored while trans people continue to be scapegoated in the name of “women’s safety”.
We are NION Women (Not In Our Name), a collective of 75,000 women who have signed a letter standing in solidarity with trans people, and trans women in particular, who are being disproportionately targeted.
The current situation involving Elon Musk’s Grok AI on the X social media platform demonstrates exactly the argument we made in our letter: the real threat to women and children has never been trans people. It comes from systems that enable powerful men to act without meaningful accountability.
Over the past week, Grok AI has been used to generate thousands of non-consensual sexualised images of women and children. Women have watched as this technology stripped them digitally, placed them in explicit scenarios, and even manipulated photos of them as children. Analysis shows Grok was producing approximately one non-consensual sexualised image per minute.
For years, we’ve watched politicians express unfounded concern about trans people in bathrooms, changing rooms, and sports, claiming to protect women’s safety. Yet when a billionaire with enormous political influence creates technology that is actively being used to violate thousands of women and children right now, the response has been empty statements and promises to “look into it”.
India gave X a 72-hour deadline to remove illegal content. The UK government called the content “absolutely appalling” and have since asked OFCOM to act. The development proved the final straw for the Women and Equalities committee who took the opportunity to quit X – decisive action that so many took months ago. The EU called it “disgusting” and “illegal.” Yet Grok continues to operate and X continues to use its in-house AI to generate this content – albeit now only for paying members of the platform.
In our letter, we stated:
“We see politicians weaponising fear to avoid addressing the systemic issues that actually endanger women.”
Energy that could address actual harm to actual victims is instead directed at trans people who are far more likely to be victims than perpetrators of violence. This is what we were talking about.
What we are seeing with Grok is not a new threat, it is a familiar pattern.
When harm is abstract or hypothetical, trans people are treated as an urgent danger. When harm is real, documented, and happening at scale, and when it benefits powerful men – and a powerful platform – the response becomes cautious, delayed, and procedural.
We are asking politicians to care consistently, not just when it suits their agenda. We are asking them to address the systems that enable abuse and not to keep directing fear towards marginalised communities who are already at risk. If women’s safety truly matters, then it must matter even when addressing it is inconvenient, politically awkward, or financially costly.
…Platforms that reward exploitation, and the powerful men behind them, are.
If you agree that trans people are being scapegoated while real harm is ignored, we ask you to stand with us.
If you have not already done so, please sign and share our letter – Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community. Add your voice to the tens of thousands of women calling for consistency, accountability, and an end to the weaponisation of women’s safety against marginalised communities.