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This but as a queer teenager, Seeing older gays out and about, living life to the fullest, laughing and holding hands and just existing gives me SO much hope. Every time I see them it provides me with a piece to the puzzle of what my future could look like.
seeing teenage gays out and about, holding hands and laughing and everything is SO healing. each new sighting puts a new bandaid on my inner queer child
#it makes me so emotional#i saw an older gay couple when i was on vaction and coming from a pretty consetvative country I'd never seen yhat before#i almost cried#those two men are the reason i get out of bed somedays#because maybe that will be me oneday#hopefully#queer
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Just one question.......
Joey invited Trump to the White House to begin the "transition".
Trump accepted..
The question.......
When Harris called Trump a FACIST and Joey called all Trumps supporters GARBAGE, I guess Trump should forgive and forget.
I urge him NOT to forgive OR forget.
These insults have gone way beyond political rhetoric.
It's TIME for CONSETVATIVE values and rhetoric and payback to be front and center.
The gloves are OFF!!!
#capitalism#democrats#republicans#democracy#us politics#donald trump#government#immigration#politics#reading
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WEAPONIZED AGAINST RELIGIOUS CONSETVATIVES BY DEMOCRATS AS AMERIKA’S KGB
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Remember when Geórgia vote blue in biden vs trump.
And then Geórgian polítics made laws to do vote surpression?
Georgia is not hopeless consetvative state. And these guys know it. That's why they are fighting to keep their control over things.
Give support to queers in georgia!
When the anti "LGBT propaganda" law passed in Russia, all of you were going insane and cared. Give Georgia the same energy. If you can have sympathy for our oppressors on the basis of them being queer, you should keep the same energy for us, if not more.
If this law passes, every Georgian queer person I know is so severely fucked, myself included. If you make jokes about "being illegal in several countries" you better fucking care about the countries you're apparently illegal in, or going to be illegal in.
Make sure to spread this around. This is important.
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like i probably shouldn't wade into discourse and i honestly dont know if this is still a Wrong Opinion that will get me in trouble on this webbed site but like. I never understood those posts that used to go around about how identifying as ace when you're 15 or whatever is going to do Irreparable Psychological Harm to you because what if you were actually a non-ace lesbian or something and you were missing out on lesbian years like? maybe im misunderstanding something but like high school is just not the be all end all of your existence. I mean its one thing if you're attacking yourself and making yourself feel ashamed and miserable with it but if a label worked for you and made you feel positively about yourself at the time then it was good for you, and if it feels like it doesn't work anymore then you don't need it anymore. you're not going to ruin your life by like, describing yourself with the wrong word for a couple of years. You have (hopefully) 60 plus years to think about who you are and try different versions of yourself you don't have to make sure you're stamped with the Correct Orientation on day 1 of puberty
#this is maybe not convincing coming from a 28yo bi who has never been on 1 (one) date#but like again when i was a Teen i didnt even really know bi was a thing you could be!#certainly i didnt know it was something i could possibly be#i feel like the narrative i knew as a Youth was very much#you either Knew You Were Gay from age 3 because you liked Wrong Gender Things TM#or you were 2000% A Normal Heterosexual and never the twain shall meet#i didnt even know people could be trans until college#and i was a kid from a very centrist liberal kind of family growing up in a large city in the mid/late 2000s#i cant even imagine how it would be for someone a few years earlier or from a slightly more consetvative background#like exploration and questioning your gender and sexuality was really just Not a Thing#i feel like now theres so much more information and knowledge and (at least in most environments) freedom#and i wish i had had that breadth of knowledge#i just feel like theres nothing wrong with Teens Using the Wrong Noun im just so happy that they have Nouns!#i never post about shit like this so i hope im not gonna get yelled at lol#but i just think more and more about how i wish id known i could try being bi as a kid#instead of still being hesitant to say it now in my late 20s
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Just be whatever you want to be dude
Here is an article on a teacher being fired for being transgender.
Here is an article on the 28 states that you can legally be fired from a teaching position for being gay in.
I can't be 'whatever I want to be'
That ain't how life works chief.
#ghost.ask#id like a stable future where i have enougu money for myself and maybe i can support my friends too?#like.....i dont wanna be living off of government insurance and food benefits that i cant even fucking eat half the time.#my ENTIEW god damn life.#i am Sick and Tired of being broke! i cant eat! i cant go to the dentist! i cant go to the doctor !#my meds cost so fucking much!#i cannot be whatever i want in a field that is so incredibly fucking consetvative#i wish i could dude.#but i cant.#not how life works.
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I think... I am the only woman at this function in a blazer, shirt, AND slacks (a suit)
#normally I wouldn't care but uh#it feels way weirder when you're a wlw surrounded by consetvative family L O L
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Reblog this version and ignore the consetvative apologists in the notes trying to obfuscate and distract away from their own culpability.
Right wing pundits be like "You shouldn't use this tragic gunpowder barrel explosion to demonize innocent fuse lighters such as myself."
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In case you ever had any doubts about my opinion on the recent election results bc apart from extra3 & heute show, I usually avoid getting political on here (hasthag #I hold a degree in political science)... casual reminder that I am German-Iranian, so there you go
#tbh the results just in my very neighborhood (=consetvative & neoliberal) make me want to vomit#apart from that huge part of my family is from indonesia/ half-indonesians so yeah...not thrilled at all#yet refusing to be scared or regard myself as the hunted#isabel for ts#I'm not even trying to drag my sexuality in here
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Submitted for your Consideration : Can Past Angers festering across decades inform us about Present Politics?
Emblematic of this Question is the Assasination of Mountbatten by North Ireland’s Provisional IRA as part of a strategy to win that region’s civil war. Along with their intended target, the bomb planters murderered innocent bystanders: two of Mountbatten’s grandsons, an 83-year-old female relative and two Irish youth deckhands in 1979. The murders occurred in the Irish Republic which was neutral. The Provo IRA leader elected to use a bomb rather than a sniper which had been the plan the previous year. The Assasination affected nothing and the Civil War raged for another 20 years.
The Civil War in North Ireland ended after the Labor Party negotiated the Good Friday Accords in the late 1990s. The Labor Party ended the physical violence without ending any lingering hatreds.
Is It Peace if there is not an emotional resolution (“we WON!” Or even “we lost”)? Does such a peace end the ANGER?
Because it’s not JUST Mountbatten et al who was a victim of the 30 years of Terror. During the Troubles in (1970-1999) North Ireland, bombs were set off year after year, decade after decade, in London, Manchester, and other Cities. People remember - how they felt, who they lost, how the children were affected emotionally.
Has the Labor Party left the English workers feeling unsatisfied with the Resolution in North Ireland - as well a host of other issues. Disgusted would be a better description.
“Disgusted” is a term the that Consetvative voters in the white working class have used to describe how they feel about the Democrats.
Consider the Brexit-era English white rural and working class embrace of Boris Johnson & the Conservative upperclass Tory’s (Britain’s GOP) and Rejection the from-the-streets Labor Party (Britain’s Dems) in the Election December 12.
US Dems and UK Labor may be correct that the rural working classes of both countries vote against their own best (future) interests.
However that criticism addresses potential improvements offered to the Electorate by the Looking-Forward-Only Parties of the UK and the US.
In doing so, the Looking-Forward-Only ignore Conservative’s FEELINGS about the Past. For one that the Past was better. That the Present isn’t as Good.
More to the point, those who are Looking-Forward-Only tend to forget WHICH Party’s Past decisions have led to a Lesser Present.
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Voting in North Ireland on Brexit appears to be along ethnic-religious lines. Counties with Protestant majorities voted to leave, Catholic counties to stay.
I’m uninformed as to how either group feels about the Good Friday accords. Or even if there is concensus within either group.
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Mountbatten was one of a few contemporary Public Figures I enthusiastically admired. I’ve used anecdotes from his Biography when speaking with young people.
At a memorial service Prince Charles said of his Uncle and Mentor, “... the grandfather I never had...[Mountbatten had] a constantly active brain which was never allowed a moment’s rest...There was always a new challenge to be overcome, fresh projects to be set in motion, more opposition to be defeated—all of which were pursued with a relentless and almost irresistible single-mindedness of purpose... Although he could certainly be ruthless with people when the occasion demanded, his infectious enthusiasm, his sheer capacity for hard work, his wit made him an irresistible leader among men.”
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taking a break from my 78 digitisation date to clown on this weirdo, mate.
to begin:
"I’m always baffled at how Genderists pretend that “terfs” are to blame for female people being excluded from female sports."
No, TERFs are not directly to blame. They just share a harmful ideological stance with the consetvative Olympic comittee. That being, bio-essentialism. TERFs want more thorough and by extent, invasive tests to be done on female athletes to make sure that there is not a wiff of a past or present penis haver in a sport that they don't really give a flying fuck about. TERFs, as in the terminally online political movement, are not the ones who are implementing these invasive and harmful measures, but they do support it. Similat to how the people who voted for Trump aren't all the same exact people who overturned Roe v. Wade. They just support the ideology, not that they have the power to implement it. My post is about what is going to be more commen-place if stringent and unneccessary tests become more commen out of fear that there could be a secret tranny or some cis-woman not being cis-woman enough to be allowed to play a sport they spent their entire fucking lives training for. Not to mention, the testosterone surpressing drugs cause intense sickness to anybody that takes them, including cis-women. Chromsonal tests don't work and have been pretty much banned since the eighties because soooo many women didn't fit into the "female" category based on chromsomes alone. Also, why are you calling me a "genderist"? I am a gender abolitionist. I see gender in all forms to be more of a curse than anything worthwile. I am nonbinary, I preach anti-gender philisophy as much as I can and I am very VERY open about my hatred for cishet men. So tell me, what evidence do you have that I am a so-called "genderist"?
"The exclusion of black female people from female sports is a direct result of gender identity ideology. It’s a direct result of people saying “males NEED to be allowed to compete in female sports! and it’s fine because their testosterone is lower than cis men’s! as long as testosterone is below a certain level people should be considered women! We CAN’T base inclusion in female sports on biological sex, that’s TERFY!!”"
hey, dickhead. nobody calls transwomen "males", mixing up your terminology with our terminology. if you're gonna be trying to satirise us, at least get the wording right or just straight up ditch the effort and call us slurs. and no, no self respecting trans-person thinks that testosterone levels or just hormone levels in general should be the bases for deciding who goes into what category of sports. you have misread us yet again. when people talk about transwomen in sports having the same amount of testosterone as another non-intersex cis-woman athlete, it isn't to say that the trans community is in absolute support of hormonal testing or sex testing in general. what it is doing, however, is pointing out how the tests, meant to ostricise transwomen, effect the same amount of cis-women as well. so, despite the tests being designed to oust and remove transwomen from sport, they still exclude cis-women. just cis-women who don't fit into the tight and often times eurocentric view of what defines a woman. so, trans-people are not in support of hormonal tests in sports as they are both oppressive and invasive. got it? this isn't my opinion, this is the commen belief amongst the trannies and fags. or do you somehow simulatanously believe that every trans-person is simultaniously for and against hormonal testing in sport? which is it? Many transpeople want aport to be seperated by skill and and weight class instead of sex anyway.
"You got what you wanted. You got black women kicked out of women’s sports so that men could compete instead. Own it, stop trying to do all these insane contortions to blame this on feminists. This is a victory for genderists and it’s the result of their lobbying. This is what feminists were trying to prevent."
No, the cis-women and trans women are bing kicked out in equal messures. In fact, there is more and more legislation being written right now to stop any transwomen or intersex cis-woman to compete in sports, period. Despite the fact there is only like a thousand transwomen athletes. Where did this great-replacement belief come from because I see no evidence for it and quite honestly, I think you are just making it up. Also, TERFs aren't feminist. TERFs are feminists in the same way Nazis are socialists or the USSR was communist. Meaning, not fucking feminist. When your most vocal allies are the people that took away abortion rights, you are not a feminist. You are apropriating the feminist name to spread your paranoid conspiracy theories like a caffeine addicted Alex Jones. Don't call yourself a feminist, when you believe that those dirty (((trannies))) were the ones who overturned Roe v. Wade and not the Republicans who fund your organisations. If you were trying to prevent this from happening, why so loudly be in support of it? You can't blame the transes for this one, its all on bio-essentialist ideology. Also, what "lobbying"? George Soros? Fuck off.
Feminists aren't to blame here, correct. It's just that TERFs aren't feminists, so you're right there.
"Your racism is not our fault. Your irresponsibility and narcissism is not our fault. People who want female sports tried to stop you from doing this."
Woah, haven't seen this direct language since the publishing if the Chronicles of The Elders of Zion, funky times we live in. We didn't do shit, the bio-essentialists did. If you want fairer sports, then sex segregation isn't it. Bio-essentialism isn't it. However, your vagina-phrenological ideology has done nothing but harm women who do not fit neatly into your definitin if what makes a woman. And the big-hatters at the top love that. The more exclussion, the better. Less athletes to pay. The ones you say we support are your allies, my friend. Maybe if you stopped spiralling around your echo-chamber like a hamster on a wheel and actually spoke to a trans-person as a human anf not a Fox News host then maybe you'd learn something. Your ideology caters to racists and alaeays had. Don't shift the blame on us, as you say.
Cool? Cool.
terf ideology affecting cis women of colour yet again
seriously, when terfs say "our ideology isn't racist! black terfs exist!" has the same exact vibe to "cops aren't racist! there are black cops!"
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Ah, but here's the thing, i could definitely go into torture horror (like Saw) where the killer is shown a bit more sympathetically or how the big trio of slasher horror are portrayed outside the actual media they're from (seriously Freddy was used to sell a lot of shit to kids). Or I could even go so far as to point out that you're retreading a 300 or so year old idea that only massively consetvative people hold onto. I mean this is the same thing said about novels when they were novel, or movies, or comic books, or anime, or video games. Basically I'm pointing out that you have taken on something that's been show for 300+ years to not be true. Sure we can empathize with characters (only thing studies have found where fiction affects reality), but at the end of the day, unless we are severely mentally disturbed, we know these aren't real people.
So once again, get out of the 1700s, 1890s, 1950s, 1990s, and early 2000s. Because frim where I'm standing, all I see is the same old retread idiot conservatives have retreaded since at least the 1700s, only this time it's supposedly progressive.
It’s fucking fanfiction.
Write whatever the hell you want.
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I love this, i'm from a very consetvative country and as loving and supportive as my family can be, there's no room for being gay, lesbian, be in a same sex relationship, much more a trans for them, my can be supportive but the rest are not. They're human beings who wanted to live a normal life, i'm always on hot water because i support stuff like this.
Showrunner Krista Vernoff and out trans actor Alex Blue Davis talk with THR about how they’d like the ABC medical drama to advance the storylines for trans characters and actors.
There’s a line of dialogue in Thursday’s Grey’s Anatomy that showrunner Krista Vernoff rewrote more times than she can count. But the impact of the line — from out trans actor Alex Blue Davis (who plays new intern Casey) to his boss, Bailey (Chandra Wilson) — was worth reworking a million times: “I’m a proud trans man, Dr. Bailey. I like for people to get to know me before they find out my medical history.”
The moment comes after Casey has just saved Bailey and all of Grey Sloan Memorial from a hacker who, having taken over its computer systems and air conditioning, left several patients in jeopardy and pushed the hospital to the brink of closing. The episode also followed Casey’s very personal reveal, having let both his new colleagues and viewers alike get to know him as a person before they learn something deeply personal about him.
“We worked very hard and very closely with Alex and [LGBTQ advocacy group] GLAAD on this storyline,” Vernoff tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The scene in which Casey disclosed to Bailey that he was a ‘proud trans man’ was rewritten more times than anything else — we wanted it exactly right.”
Inspired by President Donald Trump’s proposed (and since blocked) ban on transgender individuals serving in the armed forces, Vernoff set out to tell a story about a trans veteran. Vernoff then intentionally cast a trans actor for the role of Dr. Casey Parker, one of the long-running medical drama’s six new interns for season 14.
“We wanted the audience to get to know this character before they knew his private medical information; we wanted his disclosure to not feel like an 'A-ha!’ shock but a genuine unfolding of this character’s truth when he felt safe with someone,” Vernoff says.
Thursday’s episode resolved the hospital’s cliffhanger from last year’s midseason finale as Casey confides in Bailey that he was arrested for hacking into the DMV’s computer system. Bailey is initially stunned as her background check on her new intern didn’t catch that very important fact. That’s when Casey discloses that there was a mistake on his driver’s license that wasn’t a typo: his local DMV declined to issue him a new license with his proper gender after he transitioned so he hacked into the system and fixed it himself.
“A lot of people don’t understand what you mean when you say 'mistake’ on a driver’s license — they think it’s a typo,” Davis tells THR. “It wasn’t enough for people to understand what female-to-male is and it’s hard to have that changed [on your driver’s license] in a lot of states. It’s a serious issue.”
Davis, whose previous credits included episodes of 2 Broke Girls andNCIS: Los Angeles, says he knew when he was cast that he’d be playing a character with comedic sensibilities that come from a Sandra Oh-like level of directness — who also was transgender. “What’s cool about the show, the episode and Krista’s vision for this character is he’s about way more than being trans,” Davis says, noting that he sees Casey’s story as unexplored territory on the small screen. “I cried at the table read, it was very moving for me. I’ve been waiting for a moment like this on TV my whole life. I am so honored I got to say that line on TV because it’s a long time coming.”
Indeed. Just like Ellen’s coming out on her ABC comedy in 1997 proved to be a landmark moment in television and pop culture, transgender characters have become more common on the small screen: Showtime’s Shameless features trans actor Elliot Fletcher (who also played trans characters on Faking It and The Fosters) in a romantic storyline with a gay character; Orange Is the New Black star Laverne Cox made history last season as broadcast’s first openly trans actress playing a transgender series regular character (on CBS’ short-lived Doubt) and multiple trans actors have had roles on Amazon’s Transparent. But what Davis and Vernoff hope Grey’s can do is advance the types of storytelling featuring trans characters and actors.
“Trans people for years have been represented as punchlines, victims and villains and not as whole people and I was not aware of that until I went through the experience of my friend’s son disclosing that he was transgender,” Vernoff says.
Those (married) friends were former Grey’s Anatomy showrunners Tony Phelan and Joan Rater (whose son helped inspire Cox’s character on Doubt) and whom Vernoff remains close with after working with them as far back as season two of the Shondaland medical drama. (Phelan and Rater’s son, Tom Phelan, played a trans character on Freeform’s GLAAD Award-winning drama The Fosters.)
“When Tom transitioned, I found myself confused, frightened and bewildered by it all because I had never personally known a trans person or understand what it meant for Tom,” Vernoff confesses. Rater, Vernoff recalls, at the time sent a lengthy email to friends and family in which she posed questions and answers that they might have about her son. Vernoff was moved by the experience and never forgot the feeling of love and acceptance she saw for Tom from Phelan and Ratner and those around them.
“Realizing that a trans person is like any other person with a journey in this lifetime — they are not victims, villains, weird or wrong; they’re none of the things people believe when they support laws like the one that Trump put forward,” Vernoff says. “My goal as a storyteller was to help illuminate that experience as an ally. I reached out to GLAAD for help in doing that because I am only an ally and not a member of LGBTQ community. They were more than happy to help.”
For the L.A.-born Davis, also a singer-songwriter whose music has been featured on shows including MTV’s Pranked, seeing more inclusive storytelling in which trans characters are not sensationalized is a welcome change.
“TV is opening up a greater range of roles [for trans characters]: Laverne played a lawyer on Doubt, and I’m playing a doctor — both roles haven’t really been seen before [for trans characters],” Davis says. “People can see trans folks in a new light: these are people who walk among us and are human beings who have lives. They’re not defined by being trans.” And just like the gay actors playing straight roles debate that has (thankfully) come and gone, Davis and Vernoff hope the next frontier is seeing trans actors playing characters in which their gender is not the central storyline as well as trans actors playing heterosexual characters where their trans-ness also has no impact on the role.
“What’s important for me to remember is there are opportunities out there where I don’t have to play trans,” Davis says. “I’m an actor. I love acting. I do love that I’m also representing a group of people who have been underrepresented, and that’s awesome. But being trans is not my identity; I identify as male. There are male roles out there that I want to play. And being an actor who happens to be trans, it’d be awesome if all those roles opened up for me because people see me and how I define myself.”
As for what comes next for Casey, Vernoff says the writers have talked about casting a love interest for Davis’ character. The showrunner also hopes to reunite with Fletcher, with whom she worked on Shameless, and cast the actor as “just a dude” on Grey’s.
“There’s so many beautiful stories to tell and representation changes minds and hearts,” Vernoff notes of the impact of art on society. She pointed to Grey’s creator Shonda Rhimes adding characters like Arizona (Jessica Capshaw) and Callie (Sara Ramirez) at a time when it was still considered a rarity to put gay or bisexual people on TV and having audiences fall in love with them before revealing their sexuality. “When there’s bigotry in the world, people can point and say, 'No, I have a friend who is gay and it’s someone you know’ — and you realize that it’s a character you love on TV. That’s how we influence people to open minds and hearts.”
That’s part of the reason Vernoff wants to try and avoid telling a story in which Casey faces any backlash just because of who he is. “One of the things we talked about with GLAAD is wouldn’t it be revolutionary to just tell human stories about trans characters? There’s a fair amount of hate that’s already depicted and hate feeds hate. I just wanted Casey to be a whole person who is an Army veteran, a good doctor and one of the gang — who happens to be trans. I didn’t want to do hate,” she says.
That’s not to say that Casey won’t disclose his medical history again in an upcoming episode as Vernoff and the Grey’s writers have yet to break the last third of season 14.
“We talked about how, when and why trans people disclose their private medical history to their community. Casey might disclose out of advocacy, if we had patient who was trans or doctor who was insensitive to patient but I imagine Casey has disclosed to some of the interns,” Vernoff notes. “My goal for Casey was to gently disclose his private medical history to Bailey and, by extension, to America and then keep him in our world as the doctor he is becoming. I told GLAAD and Alex that I’m open to continuing to talk and work with them if there are more stories that would be helpful or ways that I can be an ally.”
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