{"id":316263,"date":"2025-11-30T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316263\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T11:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:00:07","slug":"lizzo-drops-powerful-words-for-the-trans-community-on-the-red-carpet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/316263\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Drops Powerful Words For The Trans Community On The Red Carpet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzo just took a moment to affirm the transgender community in a way that not only supported them but also spoke life into them.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent red carpet interview at the 2025 GQ Men Of The Year party, Lizzo was asked if she had a \u201cword for the dolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The artist then stopped herself from getting too \u201cpolitical.\u201d The interviewer then pivoted, asking Lizzo if she had any words of support for any doll who may be watching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best thing you can be in this world is yourself,\u201d she said. \u201cNo matter what you have to do or who the fuck you have to ignore or what boundry you have to break through to be yourself do it. It\u2019s worth it, baby on the other side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The phrase \u201cProtect the Dolls\u201d was printed on a T-shirt by designer Conner Ives to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/glamour-uk-jk-rowling-transgender-women-cover-right-wing_n_6905074ce4b0060501ac31db\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"support \" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"692b861de4b0675020452df1\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6905074ce4b0060501ac31db\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">support <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/glamour-uk-jk-rowling-transgender-women-cover-right-wing_n_6905074ce4b0060501ac31db\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Trans Lifeline\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"692b861de4b0675020452df1\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6905074ce4b0060501ac31db\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Trans Lifeline<\/a>. The shirt was notably worn by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/pedro-pascal-jk-rowling-bullies-make-me-sick_n_685aec5ce4b0681fbcabc954\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Pedro Pascal \" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"692b861de4b0675020452df1\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"685aec5ce4b0681fbcabc954\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pedro Pascal <\/a>earlier this year after Britain\u2019s highest court determined \u201cthat a woman is someone born biologically female, excluding transgender people from the legal definition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen, I want to protect the people I love,\u201d Pascal said, whose sibling Lux Pascal is a transgender actor and activist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it goes beyond that,\u201d he continued. \u201cBullies make me fucking sick.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lizzo just took a moment to affirm the transgender community in a way that not only supported them&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75,140821,140820,140822,26256],"class_list":["post-316263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-lgtbq","tag-lizzo","tag-protect-the-dolls","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}