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2025-07-23 17:08:31

Alan Cumming Used His 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Monologue to Talk About Trans People | Them

“These superhero movies, I only pretend, but I happen to believe that there are actual superheroes in real life who walk among us, and these superheroes are called trans people,” he said. Cumming then proceeded to draw a number of parallels between superheroes and trans people — that they are “born with something special and magical about them, and they often have to hide what's special and magical about them from other people,” and that “they grow up in a society that doesn't understand them, that makes them the other and often hates them.”

Alan Cumming Used His 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Monologue to Talk About Trans People

“I happen to believe that there are actual superheroes in real life who walk among us, and these superheroes are called trans people.”

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