Alexandra Billings says MAGA bullies got her banned from TikTok
Award-winning transgender actress Alexandra Billings says supporters of President-elect Donald Trump mass reported her profile on TikTok, leading to it being permanently banned from the video-sharing platform. Despite this, she has pledged to keep defiantly speaking about her identity and trans issues on social media.Since the day [Donald Trump] became Chief Cook and Bottle Washer, I noticed my numbers on the Tickety were going up. Very quickly, she wrote in a November 15 Instagram post. This has happened before. And ever since the DTs began the MAGA Cult has found myTikToks triggering. And like most cowards, they are bullies. So instead of facing me human to human, they got together, mass reported me, and got me permanently banned. Related Alexandra Billings weighs in on Hunter Schafers decision to turn down trans roles Dont spend a second doing anything that doesnt bring you joy. I believe these humans are lost, she wrote. As if someone had pushed them all collectively down a spiral staircase and they cant seem to find their way out. And if they think my Transness is too much, that what I am has been shoved in their face long enough, and that my community needs to go back into the closet, they aint seen nothin yet. Never Miss a Beat Subscribe to our newsletter to stay ahead of the latest LGBTQ+ political news and insights. Subscribe to our Newsletter today They think this is somehow going to silence me, Billings continued, They think that somehow Im going to remain quiet. Docile. [but] I will also be talking about transgender rights; non-binary humans, my marriage to a cis woman, being mixed race, 62 and living with HIV. I will continue to talk about being an ex sex-worker and living in recovery from heroin, opiates, booze, and cocaine. I will talk about being both an artist and a professor of acting at USC [University of Southern California]. I will talk about teaching young people which I have done for over four decades.She said she would also continue to talk about playing sports with cisgender women, going into womens public locker rooms and changing clothes, using womens public restrooms since 1989, and added, I will remind the cult that it is never us who brings up genitalia. It is them. And above all, I will talk about the transgender youth and their need for Trans healthcare and for them to be lifted up seen and honored. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Alexandra Billings (@therealalexandrabillings)In September 2017, Billings made history by appearing in possibly the first-ever full-frontal nude scene portrayed by a trans actress in a television series. The scene occurred in the fourth season of the Amazon dramatic seriesTransparent.In the show, Billings played Davina, the friend and mentor of lead character Maura, a transwoman who came out in her older adulthood. Billings was also the first openly trans actress ever to play a trans TV character through her appearance in the2005TVmovie prequelRomy and Michelle: In the Beginning.According to The Daily Beast, Billings was also originally cast in the lead role of the 2005 trans dramedyTransamericabut later lost the role to cisgender actress Felicity Huffman in order for producers to get more financial backing for the film.Billings is also a cabaret singer and has used her notorietyto raise awarenessabout transgender political challenges, lifetime experiences and the history of trans activism. She has won the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award, the 2017 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, one Joseph Jefferson Award and five After Dark Awards for her theater work in Chicago Theatre.Subscribe to theLGBTQ Nation newsletterand be the first to know about the latest headlines shaping LGBTQ+ communities worldwide.