Jameela Jamil reveals she has been receiving backlash from trans activists for her opinion on gender neutral award categories
Jameela Jamil, an actress and activist, has expressed her concern that merging the award categories for men and women to create gender-neutral categories is having a negative impact on women in the entertainment industry.
She shared her opinion on the matter on Instagram, which
sparked a backlash from those who felt that her position disregarded the
fact that "trans women are women."
Responding to the backlash,
The Good Place star took to Instagram Stories to further discuss the issue
and explain herself:
“I was talking about the Oscars considering erasing gendered
categories for performers, and how that has gone really badly for women in
the past. Even recently with the Grammys and Brits.”
“Men swept
the category.”
“I knew there was a risk in daring to speak at
all, even though this decision impacts women directly so it seems a little
reasonable to allow women to even just ask questions and explain their
question.”
Jamil said that the response was at first “largely
positive” and “a lot of especially enby/gnc people” agreed with her, while
“some disagreed so thoughtfully”.
“Bella Ramsey and I even got
chatting on the issue and realized we both don't have the perfect answer, it
was all fine and lovely and communicative.”
The She-Hulk actress
then shared that the feedback suddenly turned bitter following that, with
people branding her a “terf” and arguing for trans women's rights.
“I
am receiving literally thousands of messages from people saying that THIS IS
WHY they don't engage in liberal social justice anymore," said the
actress.
