{"id":986002,"date":"2021-11-08T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=986002"},"modified":"2021-11-08T17:29:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:29:16","slug":"uproar-on-set-after-general-hospital-star-reposts-tweet-calling-rachel-levine-a-dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uproar-on-set-after-general-hospital-star-reposts-tweet-calling-rachel-levine-a-dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Uproar on Set After \u2018General Hospital\u2019 Star Reposts Tweet Calling Rachel Levine a \u2018Dude\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fuproar-on-set-after-general-hospital-star-reposts-tweet-calling-rachel-levine-a-dude%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=986002&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 class=\"subheading\"><i>General Hospital<\/i> star Ingo Rademacher apologized after being accused of reposting a \u201ctransphobic\u201d tweet that called transgender Biden administration official Rachel Levine a \u201cdude.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trans activists and some of Rademacher\u2019s <i>General Hospital<\/i> cast mates took exception to the language that characterized Levine as a \u201cdude.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The actor, who has portrayed Jasper \u201cJax\u201d Jacks on the soap opera since 1996, apologized <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2021\/11\/ingo-rademacher-general-hospital-cassandra-james-nancy-lee-grahn-vaccine-mandate-rachel-levine-transphobic-tweet-1234869762\/\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> that he should not have reposted the message originally written by podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey referring to a transgender woman as a \u201cdude,\u201d according to Deadline.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18659346\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-103661443.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18659346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-103661443.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>(Christopher Polk\/Getty Images for DATG)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Rademacher said he intended to point out the \u201chypocrisy of the Left-Wing media,\u201d but that he should have crossed out the word dude in his post. However, he also insisted, \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s okay to call a transgender an empowered woman because where does that leave women?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The soap star was excoriated by fellow <i>General Hospital<\/i> cast member Cassandra James \u2014 a transgender actor \u2014 for posting the dude comment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am aware of a transphobic post shared by a fellow General Hospital actor,\u201d James, who plays Dr. Terry Randolph on the soap, tweeted to fans. \u201cShame on you. You have some serious unlearning and education to do. I feel deeply disappointed that such a public display of ignorance could come from our GH family.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.4612794612795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am aware of a transphobic post shared by a fellow General Hospital actor. Shame on you. You have some serious unlearning and education to do. I feel deeply disappointed that such a public display of ignorance could come from our GH family.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cassandra James (@cassandrajames_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cassandrajames_\/status\/1457532723438837762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rademacher also apologized directly to James for his post about Levine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCassandra, I apologize to you sincerely. I think you\u2019re an absolute talent and you\u2019re very beautiful as well. I don\u2019t think a transphobic man would say that. I think you\u2019re absolutely gorgeous, I really do,\u201d Rademacher said.<\/p>\n<p>To further illustrate his lack of transphobia, Rademacher added that when his son was three, he bought the boy a Disney princess dress because the child wanted to \u201clook pretty.\u201d He added, \u201cI don\u2019t think a transphobic dad would buy his son a Disney princess dress.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CWBcbIEDwmM\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.26923076923077\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another cast member, Nancy Lee Grahn, even <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NancyLeeGrahn\/status\/1457573714439118850\" target=\" _blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed<\/a> that Rademacher has been fired from <i>General Hospital<\/i>, though there has been no confirmation of the claim.<\/p>\n<p>Rademacher has drawn the ire of his fellow actors and producers of the soap opera before with his stance against forced vaccinations and his support for health care freedom.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CV-1mzFvx2W\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.26923076923077\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Hospital star Ingo Rademacher apologized after being accused of reposting a \u201ctransphobic\u201d tweet that called transgender Biden administration official Rachel Levine a \u201cdude.\u201d Trans activists and some of Rademacher\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}