Transgender best actress Oscar nominee apologizes for old tweets criticizing George Floyd, Islam

Karla Sofía Gascón, the first openly trans actor to beryllium nominated for an Oscar, apologized and ditched X aft aggregate arguable tweets were resurfaced.

Gascón, who is presently a contender for the Academy Award for "Best Actress" aft starring successful the movie "Emilia Pérez," faced backlash for aged societal media posts astir Islam and George Floyd. 

In 1 2020 station that was reportedly viewed and translated from Spanish by Variety magazine, Gascón shared a photograph of a Muslim household successful a restaurant, and wrote, "Islam is marvelous, without immoderate machismo. Women are respected, and erstwhile they are truthful respected they are near with a small squared spread connected their faces for their eyes to beryllium disposable and their mouths, but lone if she behaves. Although they formal this mode for their ain enjoyment. How DEEPLY DISGUSTING OF HUMANITY."

This was not the lone station from the performer criticizing Islam, however, arsenic Gascón besides projected successful 2020, "Until we prohibition religions that spell against European values and interruption quality rights, specified arsenic Islam, nether the extortion of state of worship, we volition not extremity portion of the immense occupation we face."

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Oscar nominee Karla Sofía Gascón ditched the X level aft arguable posts resurfaced. ((Photo by Medios y Media/Getty Images))

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The performer slammed different religions by name, penning successful a 2021 post, "I americium truthful sick of truthful overmuch of this sh--, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of each the f---ing beliefs of morons that interruption quality rights."

In a station from 2020, soon aft the decease of George Floyd, the performer wrote, "I truly deliberation that precise fewer radical ever cared astir George Floyd, a cause addict swindler, but his decease has served to erstwhile again show that determination are radical who inactive see achromatic radical to beryllium monkeys Without rights and see policemen to beryllium assassins. They’re each wrong."

The Academy Awards nominee had besides criticized the Oscars successful 2021, "More and much the #Oscars are looking similar a ceremonial for autarkic and protestation films, I didn’t cognize if I was watching an Afro-Korean festival, a Black Lives Matter objection oregon the 8M. Apart from that, an ugly, disfigured gala."

Since then, Gascón appears to person ditched the X level and apologized for the arguable statements, telling The Hollywood Reporter successful Spanish, "I’m sorry, but I tin nary longer let this run of hatred and misinformation to impact neither my household nor maine anymore, truthful astatine their petition I americium closing my relationship connected X." 

The performer besides claimed to person been "threatened with death, insulted, abused and harassed to the constituent of exhaustion."

Karla Sofía Gascón is the archetypal openly trans histrion to beryllium nominated for an Oscar. (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)

"I privation to admit the speech astir my past societal media posts that person caused hurt," Gascón said successful a connection provided by Netflix. "As idiosyncratic successful a marginalized community, I cognize this suffering each excessively good and I americium profoundly atrocious to those I person caused pain. All my beingness I person fought for a amended world. I judge airy volition ever triumph implicit darkness."

Fox News Digital reached retired to Gascón's absorption and did not person an contiguous reply.

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