The non-binary actor shared the privilege they felt after seeing the film about a trans hate crime
BY YASMIN VINCE, IMAGES BY HBO AND SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES
Bella Ramsey, star of The Last Of Us, jumped on Instagram to share how trans film Boys Don’t Cry made them feel “very privileged”.
The non-binary actor posted a caption to Instagram about the 1999 film on 22 September. They said: “I watched Boys Don’t Cry recently and realised how not long ago trans acceptance started to happen.”
They added: “It made me feel very privileged to live in this time of change, where tolerance, learning, love and understanding are beginning to champion”. Ramsey ended the post with two hashtags, #TransLivesMatter and #ProtectTransKids.
The message appeared as a caption to a photo dump of pictures either of Ramsey, who turns 21 this week, or taken by them. The actor came out as non-binary last year in an interview with The New York Times, where they said: “Being gendered isn’t something I particularly like but in terms of pronouns, I really couldn’t care less.”
Boys Don’t Cry, the film Ramsey reacted to, tells the real-life story of a young trans man who was the victim of a brutal hate crime. Hilary Swank, who is a cisgender woman, won an Oscar for her playing Brandon Teena in the film but has since said a trans actor would have been better.
In 2020, she told Variety: “We now have a bunch of trans actors who would obviously be a lot more right for the role.”
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