Mark Ruffalo Apologizes To Trans Community For Casting Matt Bomer As Trans Woman

[chaya]

Actor Mark Ruffalo has responded to the trans community’s critical response to the casting of actor Matt Bomer as a transgender sex worker in his new film, Anything

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[spiritoftherain]

So, are we supposed to still be mad at Mark Ruffalo after this apology?

[chaya]

I'm not going to tell you how to feel, if that's what you mean. But 'Please have a little compassion. We are all learning' isn't cute when there's no way he only just realized that his his marketable cis friend was a good choice for the box office but not for actual trans people. That Eddie Redmayne movie had the exact same problem and it literally debuted last year.

[eveofrevolution]

[spiritoftherain]

I don't know what to think. My brain wants to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I keep wondering if that makes me a scumbag with white male privilege, etc, etc.

It makes me unconfortable!

[screamingintune]

i can't at this tweet:

Join me in my journey of getting woke to the Transgender Experience. Beautiful moving and deeply human. https://t.co/eqVurkaVv0
- Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) September 2, 2016

[chaya]

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[elialshadowpine]

... benefit of the doubt: officially lost.

[ohmiya_sg]

:/