Ag Commissioner Sid Miller’s Transphobic “Joke” Puts Ignorance on Display Again
This past Sunday, Amazon’s Transparent won big at the Emmys, with series creator Jill Soloway winning an award for directing and star Jeffrey Tambor taking the prize for outstanding actor in a comedy series. It was an historic win that brought trans issues to the forefront–Soloway used her acceptance speech to highlight the country’s “trans civil rights problem,” and to call for Congress to pass the transgender Equality Act. Across social media, most people celebrated the spotlight on a social injustice that hasn’t typically had such a large platform before.
One person who didn’t seem too happy about Transparent was Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. Instead, during the Emmys, Miller took to Facebook to post the following “joke”:
If anything Sid Miller just confirmed what Soloway said in her speech–that we have a massive trans civil rights problem–because he thought it was a-okay to make the struggles of a marginalized group the butt of a (not-very-good) joke.
It’s not the first time Sid Miller has taken to social media to mock people who are different from him. Just last month, Miller received flak for a Facebook post implying that the U.S. should drop a bomb on the “Muslim world.” That time, the post was quickly deleted and blamed on a staffer, indicating that he at least recognized that maybe it wasn’t okay to call for violence against Muslims in a state that has the largest Muslim population in the country. Yet his trans “joke” still remains at the top of his Facebook page.
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