Glee star Alex Newell spoke out on comments Fox News personality Bill O’Reilly made about having a transgendered student showcased on the hit show.
O’Reilly made comments about Unique over a year ago on his Fox News show saying:
“If you make it glamorous in a program like Glee, which is undeniably a good program…a lot of these dopey kids are confused about who they are.”
Newell spoke to Fusion
this week and commented on how important it is for a character like
Unique to be represented on television for those kids at home who are
watching and going through the same things the character is:
“It’s wrong to call people dopey. When it’s something this poignant and such a big part of the society, you can’t call kids dopey because this is something that they’re actually going through, this is what they feel on the inside, there’s nothing dopey about it.”
Though Alex Newell was a runner-up in the first season of Oxygen’s The Glee Project in 2011, his character was upgraded after his debut and has now appeared in more episodes of Glee than the other winners from season 1. Season 2 winner Blake Jenner is also a recurring series regular in Glee season 5.
We commend Alex for taking a stand publicly and standing up for both his character and the transgender community at large.
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