Hari Nef has a message for "journalists and also everyone else": stop categorizing her as a "trans actress." The Transparent star is making her feature debut this month in Assassination Nation and is challenging the media to change the way it tokenizes actors who happen to be transgender.
\u201cdear journalists and also everyone:\nwould you introduce viola davis as a "black actress?"\nwould you introduce kristen stewart as a "gay actress?"\nwould you introduce millicent simmonds as a "deaf actress?"\nno? okay, cool: so please stop introducing me as a "trans actress"\u201d— hari nef (@hari nef) 1536949240
Nef echoes comments made by Kim Petras, who told the Guardian that it's "hard not to get completely reduced to being transgender," and later explained to HuffPost that she's "never written a song specifically about being transgender." In a post-visibility world, artists are demanding to be acknowledged for their work rather than their identity -- just like everyone else.
