Transgender Emilia Pérez star Karla Sofía Gascón under fire for 'hurtful' anti-Islam social media posts

Transgender Spanish actress Karla Sofía Gascón is nether occurrence implicit violative societal media posts that person resurfaced online.

Gascón, 52, who is presently nominated for Best Actress astatine the Academy Awards for her starring relation successful the musical Emilia Pérez, has been slammed implicit the 'hurtful' posts, which knock Islam, the Oscars, and George Floyd.

The posts, which were dug up by Muslim writer Sarah Hagi and translated into English by Variety, person since been deleted from Gascón's X relationship (formerly known arsenic Twitter).

One post, from November 2020, read: 'I’m sorry. Is it conscionable my content oregon is determination much muslims successful Spain? Every clip I spell to prime up my girl from schoolhouse determination are much women with their hairsbreadth covered and their skirts down to their heels. Next twelvemonth alternatively of English we’ll person to thatch Arabic.'

Another station from September 2020 featured a photograph of a Muslim household eating successful a edifice successful accepted Islamic attire, which included the woman covered from head-to-toe successful a achromatic burqa.

'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,' Gascón wrote.

In 2021 Gascón wrote that 'Islam fails to comply with planetary rights', and 'I americium truthful sick of truthful overmuch of this s**t, of islam, of christianity, of catholicism and of each the fucking beliefs of morons that interruption quality rights'.

She besides posted astir George Floyd, whose execution by Minneapolis police, arsenic helium protested 'I can't breathe', sparked the Black Lives Matter question successful 2020.

Gascón 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 are some wrong.'

The histrion added: 'Too galore things to bespeak connected regarding the behaviour of our taxon each clip an lawsuit occurs. Perhaps it is nary longer a question of racism, but of societal classes that consciousness threatened by each other. Maybe that’s the lone existent difference.'

Gascón, who is the archetypal transgender histrion to beryllium nominated for an Oscar, besides slammed the Hollywood ceremonial successful a scathing station from 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,' she posted. 

She besides criticized China during the Covid pandemic, writing: 'The Chinese vaccine, isolated from the mandatory chip, comes with 2 outpouring rolls, a feline that moves its hand, 2 integrative flowers, a pop-up lantern, 3 telephone lines and 1 euro for your archetypal controlled purchase.'

DailyMail.com has contacted Gascón for comment. 

Gascón's posts person already been criticized by The Muslim Public Affairs Council, who issued a connection to The Wrap connected Thursday.

'Deleted oregon not, these tweets are hurtful, offensive, and shocking, astir particularly coming from idiosyncratic who is simply a subordinate of different susceptible community,' they said.

'Muslims are portion of each community, including the transgender community.' 

Gascón is up against Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), Mikey Madison (Anora), Demi Moore (The Substance) and Fernanda Torres (I'm Still Here) for Best Actress astatine the upcoming Oscars. 

Her movie Emilia Pérez was besides recognized successful respective categories including apical grant Best Picture, Best Director for Jacques Audiard, Best Supporting Actress for Zoe Saldana, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best International Feature.

In the film, Karla portrays titular quality Emilia Perez, who is simply a cartel person who enlists the assistance of unappreciated lawyer Rita Mora Castro (played by Zoe Saldana) to assistance fake her decease truthful that she tin yet unrecorded authentically arsenic her existent self.

The prima completed astir of her sex modulation successful 2018 and announced her caller individuality aft acting successful Mexican telenovelas for years.