The List of Celebrities Who Support ‘Child Gender Affirming’
We speak together with one voice to demand that your companies create and enforce stronger content and ad policies to directly confront the content that is causing online and offline harm to transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people.
Sincerely,
Abby Wambach, Adam Eli, Aitch Alberto, AJ Shively, Alan Cumming, Alejandra Caraballo, Alejandra Ghersi, Alex Clark, Alexandra Gutierrez, Alisa Ramirez, Allie Leonard, Allison Goldfrapp, ALOK Vaid-Menon, Alyssa May Gold, Alyssa Milano, Amber Ruffin, Amber Tamblyn, Amy Schumer, Amy Landecker, Andrew Polk, Angelica Ross, Annaleigh Ashford, Antoni Porowski, Aparna Brielle, Arden Myrin, Ariana Grande, Arisce Wanzer, Avan Jogia, Barbie Ferreira, Bebe Rexha, Bella Ramsey, Ben Barnes, Benito Skinner, Benj Pasek, Bethany Cosentino, Bethany Leavel, Billy Eichner, Billy Porter, Bob the Drag Queen, Bobby Berk, Bonnie Milligan, Brad Oscar, Bradley Whitford, Brandon Matthews, Brendan Hines, Bretman Rock, Brian Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Brittany Tomlinson, Busy Philipps, Caesar Samoya, Camila Cabello, Camille A Brown, Cara Delevingne, Chani Nicholas, Chella Man, Chelsea Handler, Cheyenne Jackson, Chris Perfetti, Christa Miller, Cleo Wade, Colton Haynes, Corey Jantzen, Cynthia Erivo, Cynthia McWilliams, Cynthia Nixon, Cyrus Veyssi, D’Arcy Carden, Dakota Fanning, Dan Levy, Darren Criss, David Shatraw, David Oulton, Debra Messing, Deepica Mutyala, Demi Lovato, Des McAnuff, Devery Jacobs, Diana Maria Riva, Diane Guerrero, Dylan Mulvaney, Ed Droste, Eddie Ndopu, EJ Marcus, Elegance Bratton, Eliot Rahal, Elle Fanning, Elliot Page, Emily Hampshire, Emily V. Gordon, Emma Hunton, Erin Reed, Estefania Pessoa, FLETCHER, Freddy Thomas, Gabrielle Union-Wade, Gigi Gorgeous, Glennon Doyle, Gottmik, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Griffin Dunne, Haley Baldwin Bieber, Hannah Gadsby, Harry Lambert, Hayley Kiyoko, Hilary Montez, Ilana Glazer, Indya Moore, Isaac Mizrahi, Jackie Bazan, Jacob Tierney, Jai Rodriguez, Jameela Jamil, James Blake, James Scully, Jaymes Vaughan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janaya Khan, Janelle Monáe, Janet Hubert, Jazz Jennings, Jenna Lyons, Jennifer Kerr, Jeremy Fall, Jessica Betts, Jillian Mercado, Jinkx Monsoon, Joe DiPietro, Jonathan Van Ness, Jonathan Bennett, Jonny Pierce, Jordan Stenmark, Jordan Firstman, Jordan Roth, JP Saxe, Judd Apatow, Justin Baldoni, Justin Tranter, Kal Penn, Kamar de los Reyes, Karamo Brown, Kate Reinders, Katherine LaNasa, Kathryn Grody, Kellie Overbey, Kelly Devine, Kendrick Sampson, Kevin Harrington, Kevin Cahoon, Ki Griffin, Kimber Elayne Sprawl, Kimberly Drew, Kristin Chenoweth, Lachlan Watson, Laith De La Cruz, Laura Terruso, Lauren Jauregui, Laverne Cox, Lena Dunham, Lena Waithe, Lena Hall, Lilly Singh, Lily Rabe, Liv Hewson, Liza Koshy, Lola Tung, Lorin Latarro, Lovell Adams-Gray, Lucky Bromhead, Mae Martin, Mae Whitman, Maggie Boccella, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Mandy Patinkin, Marc Jacobs, Marc Kudisch, Marieme Diop, Martha Plimpton, Matt Bernstein, Matt McGorry, Matt Walton, Medalion Rahimi, Meena Harris, Megan Crabbe, Michael D. Cohen, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Michelle Buteau, Midori Francis, Miriam Silverman, Moj Mahdara, Mona Chalabi, Montego Glover, Munroe Bergdorf, Nate Wonder, Nats Getty, Neila Karassik, Nicholas Ferroni, Nico Carney, Nico Santos, Nico Tortorella, Nicole Maines, Niecy Nash-Betts, Nik Dodani, Ocean Vuong, Olly Alexander, Our Lady J, Padma Lakshmi, Patrick Stewart, Patti LuPone, Peppermint, Phillip Picardi, Phoebe Robinson, Poorna Jagannathan, Rachel Cargle, Rafael Silva, Ramy Youssef, Randy Shulman, Raquel Willis, Richa Moorjani, Rob Holysz, Robert Horn, Rory Dahl, Rosario Dawson, Rupi Kaur, Sam Smith, Sander Jennings, Sandy Rustin, Sara Bareilles, Sara Ramirez, Sarah Ramos, Sasha Velour, Scott Turner Schofield, Shawn Mendes, Shea Couleé, Shea Diamond, Sherri Saum, Sinead Burke, Solomon Hughes, Stephen Kunken, Susie Park, T. Oliver Reid, Taika Waititi, Tan France, Tatiana Maslany, Tess Holliday, Tiffany Namtu, Tommy Dorfman, Tracee Ellis Ross, Travis Alabanza, Tunde Adebimpe, Vivek Shraya, Wanda Sykes, Warren Carlyle, Wayne Cilento, Wilson Cruz, Yves Mathieu East, Zoë Chao, Zooey Deschanel.
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I can hear some of you out there asking, “What’s with the Italics?” Simple. Those were the names I recognized as celebrities or might-be celebrities I should try to verify. Some sneaked in by the skin of their teeth at IMDB, a handful of independent productions or reality show fare in which they appeared as themselves. I also recognized some last names I didn’t bother with. If I had heard of them, it was because they were related to other famous people — Bergdorf, Getty, Rahal, Dahl, Willis-Bieber (?), and that’s not celebrity, it’s guilt by association. What the names best known to me had in common was that they are almost all past the peak of their careers and have been known lefties throughout. What was surprising, in this context, were the annoyingly tough-taking names that weren’t there — Sarah Silverman, Rosie O’Donnell, Alec Baldwin, Charlize Theron, Robert DeNiro, Sean Penn, Mark Ruffalo, Jeff Daniels, Megan Rapinoe, Madonna, Cher, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Admiral Levine, Larry David, Margaret Cho, Janeane Garofalo, Kathy Griffin, etc, etc. Plus… ZERO in the way of bona fide A-list movie stars. Overall, an A to Z bust, bracketed by a retired soccer star (Abby) and a has-been TV star (Zoey) with remarkably little in between.
Upshot? This is not an imposing list. Unless it’s imposing by way of being an imposition on the victims of mass media maneuvering for click bait. More than anything else, it’s yet another hoax by a would-be group of victims who want to seem more numerous and influential than they really are. There is no stature here.
My favorite proof of that, having turned the list from a list to a paragraph, was the chore of having to read and deal with each name in order. Just looking at the names in a column it’s easy to miss the fact that they do not satisfy the very first criterion of a seriously alphabetized lexicon of authorities. These names are arranged alphabetically by first name. Hilarious. When you look up great names in the encyclopedia or honors lists, do you go to the “A’s” to find Lincoln or the “S’s” for Freud? Of course not. But when you’re looking up the ones whose fame is presently at at ten or twelve minutes hoping for McLuhan’s fifteen, first names is their best and possibly only memory trigger.
I know I’m not up to the minute on celebrity gossip or movies and TV shows that are out for a weekend or a month and vanish, but I do watch a lot of streaming content, much of it new. If I can’t recognize more than 15 percent of the names on a list of purported celebrities, somebody is pulling somebody else’s leg.
And here’s that leg if you want it.
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