Trans actresses respond to Scarlett Johansson playing a trans man
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Recently, Scarlett Johansson signed on to play real-life crime boss Dante “Tex” Gill in Rupert Sanders’ Rub & Tug, despite the fact that the real Gill—who died in 2003—was a transgender man. To make matters worse, Sanders also directed Johansson in Ghost In The Shell, in which she portrayed a character who was…