{"id":1710043,"date":"2022-10-25T09:48:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710043"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:49:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T13:49:16","slug":"love-interest-in-taylor-swift-music-video-is-transgender-actor-laith-ashley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/love-interest-in-taylor-swift-music-video-is-transgender-actor-laith-ashley\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Interest In Taylor Swift Music Video Is Transgender Actor Laith Ashley"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flove-interest-in-taylor-swift-music-video-is-transgender-actor-laith-ashley%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1710043&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender<\/a> model Laith Ashley, who is a biological female, plays a love interest in a music video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift\u2019s<\/a>\u00a010th studio album \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taylor-swifts-midnights-marriage-miscarriage-and-two-single-day-records-at-spotify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Midnights<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A teaser clip for music videos from \u201cMidnights\u201d includes an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.out.com\/music\/2022\/10\/21\/laith-ashley-play-taylor-swifts-love-interest-midnights-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">image<\/a> of Swift placing her hand on Ashley\u2019s back while the pair are in bed together. At the end of the teaser video, \u201cLaith Ashley\u201d is one of the twelve names listed under \u201cfeaturing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing assigned female at birth, I thought I was a lesbian, even though I hated the word,\u201d the entertainer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gq-magazine.co.uk\/article\/transgender-model-laith-ashley-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> GQ in 2018. But it was a YouTube video, apparently, that pushed Ashley into identifying as transgender.\u00a0\u201cI thought, \u2018Oh, my God. This is who I am.\u2019 I was so filled with fear. In my mind I still wanted to be my parents\u2019 little girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-454514\" class=\"wp-image-454514 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1154917882-951x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"951\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1154917882-951x576-1.jpg 951w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1154917882-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1154917882-768x465-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/GettyImages-1154917882.jpg 1010w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-454514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Matt Winkelmeyer\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Swift in 2019 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taylor-swifts-pro-pride-video-gets-ripped-shreds-james-barrett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crushed by critics<\/a> on both the Left and Right for her LGBT-themed \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d music video.<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/entertainment\/music\/a28067315\/taylor-swift-you-need-to-calm-down-video-stereotypes\/\">Cosmopolitan<\/a>\u00a0at the time ran through some of the backlash the video sparked online, particularly from the Left, over all the egregious stereotypes and counterproductive messaging in the video. \u201cAbout halfway through the video, we are introduced to the anti-LGBTQ+ crowd protesting Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita\u2019s fake wedding. Of course, they\u2019re portrayed with about as much nuance as the lyrics of the song,\u201d Cosmo said, pointing out a shot of one of the gay marriage-protesting rednecks and one of the country bumbkins\u2019 \u201cironic\u201d signs declaring, \u201cGET A BRAIN MORANS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo [Taylor Swift\u2019s] new song\/video is calming down and not throwing shade yet she stereotypes the protesters \u2026 guess calming down only applies if you agree with her views,\u201d wrote one \u201c#disappointed\u201d fan noted by the outlet. \u201cDid she really need the lazy classist stereotype? Last time I checked, there were plenty of pretty polished people spewing intolerance too,\u201d another disappointed pro-LGBT twitterer posted, a sentiment echoed by many others on the Left. \u201cThe fact she really depicted anti-LGBT protestors as hicks? Girl, many are very privileged people in high places in society,\u201d another wrote. \u201cThis issue is too important for caricatures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Swift generally stayed out of politics before 2018, when the feminist backed former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D) over\u00a0Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/sen-marsha-blackburn-on-attacks-from-taylor-swift-i-have-good-friends-that-are-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marsha Blackburn<\/a> (R) in the state\u2019s Senate race. In an Instagram post, Swift\u00a0bashed Blackburn, who would go on to win the race, as an enemy of \u201chuman rights\u201d while speaking of \u201csystemic racism\u201d in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><em>John Bickley contributed to this report\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/taylor-swifts-father-deactivates-facebook-page-amanda-prestigiacomo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift\u2019s Father Allegedly Deactivates Facebook Page After Reportedly Conservative Views\u00a0Exposed<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender model Laith Ashley, who is a biological female, plays a love interest in a music video for Taylor Swift\u2019s\u00a010th studio album \u201cMidnights.\u201d A teaser clip for music videos from \u201cMidnights\u201d includes an image of Swift placing her hand on Ashley\u2019s back while the pair are in bed together. 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