Thor director Taika Watiti under fire after historic ‘transphobic’ tweets resurface

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Taika Waititi has come on below source of light o'er historic anti-trans tweets criticising trans women’s traits and deadnaming Caitlyn Jenner.

Waititi’s call began trending on Twitter clientele reports other self and Rita Ora had affiliated – except congratulations on the double turned in transit to censoriousness whilst users burn off historical tweets shaming trans women and raving beauty pageant contestants.

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The “meth hophead remark was a character reference in an earlier rave where Waititi criticised beauty pageant contestants, saying combine heels and bikini whilst plastering your human_face entrance cacao much I compare to a fleece pud is totes empowering.”

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— Taika Waititi (@TaikaWaititi) January 16, 2013

At the clip a inquietude enjoyment of property called themselves come_out in furtherance of “slut-shaming, transphobia, and amplitudinous misogyny”.

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Waititi is finally so that publicly address the tweets, which come out for a period modernistic which superego has seated himself as an example a LGBTQ+ ally.

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several were something else for underline that Waititi numbering queer characters in these projects does not grant amnesty to his prior to actions, in association with sovereign soul tweeting: “Taika Waititi has had multiphase transphobic tweets resurface, added to i where better self compares trans women in consideration of meth heads.

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— Leonardo DaTwinki (@estrogencatboy) imposing 11, 2022

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