'Eliminating trans actors on screens will not eliminate trans people,' Terakes in a statement over the weekend, adding that the decision to block the hit film over her gender identity alone was 'targeted and dehumanizing.'
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,” said Causeway and Bankside. “Zoe has made their own statement, which we fully support, and we are immensely proud of their involvement in the film.” Over the weekend, Terakes wrote a lengthy and emotional statement about the situation on their Instagram account and on X. “I am a trans actor who happened to get the role. I’m not a theme. I’m a person. Kuwait has banned this film due to my identity alone,” they wrote. “It is targeted and dehumanizing and means to harm us.”
They added: “As much as it is very sad to be on the receiving end of this, what is even more heartbreaking is what this precedent means for the queer and trans people of Kuwait. Eliminating trans actors on screens will not eliminate trans people but it will eliminate a lot of hope. And hope is such a large part of how we live as marginalized people. It’s how we learn to move through the hatred and the mistreatment and the violence.
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