i think for a guy who says he doesn't discriminate, its pretty discriminating to purposefully misgender someone. im so mad at the writing for this choice like it was cheap and also during pride month????
lestat has always been a bigot by modern standards tbf. who he says he is and who he actually is are two wildly different things. we've seen him being racist & misogynistic in the first season plenty of times. the fact that he's also transphobic doesn't surprise me at all. the fandom deluded itself into believing that he's some kind of super progressive inclusive icon.
what i didn't like is that the show didn't take time to reframe it and therefore turned lestat's transphobia into a joke they expect the audience to agree with. for example, lestat being anti-black in s1 was always counterbalanced by louis' pov (even in "joking" moments like "non-discriminating" scene we're supposed to be on louis' side). in s3e1 lestat is also being ableist by calling louis "an insane person" but the joke is that he immediately says with regret in his voice that he needs to remove that part.
lestat's narration doesn't display even a tiny bit of guilt about misgendering non-binary person and, in fact, continues to misgender them. this could have been reframed in his narration as something ironic like "in my defense, english is not my first language", to show that in this moment we're supposed to laugh at lestat, not with him. but no. so far it didn't happen. so it actually feels like something writers believe instead. yay pride month!!
