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Netflix’s transgender actress Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón criticized President Trump for his executive order defining gender as “two sexes,” calling him “shameless.” Gascón, nominated for the 2025 Best Actress Oscar, is the first transgender individual to receive this recognition.
“He is shameless,” Gascón told the Hollywood Reporter of President Trump’s executive order. “I hope that whatever needs to happen happens to shut everyone up, on both sides.”
Earlier this month, the trans actor made an emotionally charged statement about LGBTQ identities on the stage at the Golden Globes: “The light always wins over darkness… You come and maybe put us in jail, you can beat us up [but] you never can take away our soul, our existence, our identity.”
Gascón stars on Netflix’s Emilia Perez, a transgender-narco musical in which the actor plays a drug boss who undergoes a sex-change operation to become a “woman.” Gascón is very vocal about transgender identity in children, claiming in a recent interview to have known that he wanted to be a girl since he was four years old.
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