Despite a dolled-up Boy George first appearing on MTV in 1984, shortly after the channel’s launch, it’s taken a pretty long while for gender fluid people to get actual recognition from the youth channel. But last night, when Ruby Rose addressed the audience at the EMAs, held in Milan, something special happened.
She referred to the crowd as, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, and everyone in-between.’
Acknowledging there are trans people or people outside of the two ‘normal’ genders everyone’s assigned? Well, that’s pretty big. Especially when we’ve had a whole weekend full of Germaine Greer saying that trans women ‘aren’t real women’. It’s quite nice that the younger generation are showing that gender isn’t quite the fixed entity it’s always seen as by even the brightest feminist minds.
It’s also pretty impressive that Ruby managed to present – alongside Ed Sheeran – while being properly injured: ‘I just got off of shooting an action film [Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, which has been filming in Cape Town], hence the cane because I’ve torn my leg. I just tore my calf muscle five times, no big deal,’ she told The Hollywood Reporter.
‘We got to do amazing things. Acting is just that genre where you get to do whatever you want.’
And if that mentality extends into your personal identity? Then so be it!
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.