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Sir Ian McKellen urges gay people to be better allies to the transgender community.

The legendary actor and Stonewall co-founder joined It’s a Sin star Olly Alexander for a special LGBT+ History Month talk on TikTok on February 25, Pink News reports. 

Sir Ian said: 

“I do hear people – gay people – talk about transgender people in very much the same terms as people used to talk about your common or garden gay.

“The connection between us all is we come under the queer umbrella – we are queer. I quite like being queer actually.

“The problems that transgender people have with the law are not dissimilar from what used to be the case for us, so I think we should all be allies really.“

This is not the first time the actor has stood up to transphobes. 

Speaking to lifestyle magazine Attitude, the veteran star talked about how happy he was about Elliot Page coming out as transgender. 

He felt “so disappointed” with himself for not recognizing the struggles that the then-teenage actor could have been facing when they worked together.

The actor talked about why it is important to be honest with oneself.

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everyone who’s spoken on defunding the police or gone to a protest in the last week: do you know the name, location, budget, and history of your local jail, prison, or detention center? are you speaking with folks trying to shut it down? how are you supporting those locked inside?

this is an actual exercise to commit to: learn the name of the jail, prison, detention center near you. learn its history, how much of the budget goes toward it, the human rights abuses taking place there. learn the local organizations helping the incarcerated people inside.

do you know your local bail policy? where undocumented people are housed when arrested? demographics of local incarcerated population? names of ministries doing outreach work inside your local prison? DoC budgets? book donation and pen pal programs? local decarceration efforts?

how many political prisoners can you name, whose stories you know well enough to educate others on? are you contributing to their legal and commissary funds? how are you actively working towards their freedom and supporting those who’ve dedicated their lives to freeing them?

abolition is a framework that requires asking practical questions that create actionable steps toward ending prisons. it requires rigorous local struggle as much as it does wider communication and solidarity. it requires knowing names, faces, stories, histories, and numbers.

which businesses, universities, and institutions have contracts w/ your local prison or jail? what’s the proposed budget increase for the next fiscal year? are the road signs and license plates in your town made from prison labor? can you name your local youth detention center?