Jamie Lee Curtis Says She’ll ‘Fight And Defend’ Her Trans Daughter’s ‘Right To Exist’ To Anyone Who Thinks Otherwise

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Jamie Lee Curtis is opening up about protecting her transgender daughter. While appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in an interview pre-taped before The Screen Actors Guild strike, the “Haunted Mansion” star explained the lengths she would go to to support and defend her youngest daughter Ruby, who is transgender. “Being a parent is about love and I love Ruby.

Love her,” Curtis, 64, told co-host Joe Scarborough. “And, people have said, ‘You’re so great to accept her love.’ What are you talking about?

This is my daughter, this human being has come to me and said, ‘This is who I am.’ And my job is to say, ‘Welcome home.’ READ MORE: Jamie Lee Curtis Shares Snaps As Her Daughter Ruby Ties The Knot In Cosplay Ceremony “I will fight and defend her right to exist to anyone who claims that she doesn’t,” the actress added. “And there are those people.” Curtis admitted “it’s going to be a really challenging time” for Ruby, 27, especially given the “awful political rhetoric” that exists. “As you know, my favourite Twitter is the waking up in don’t say gay Florida, someone waking up going gay,” she said, before noting: “I’m trying to learn the most important thing is that I don’t know everything. “There are a lot of things I don’t know about.

And there’s a lot of this that I need to learn,” Curtis confessed. “And I have gone to teachers, I’ve gone to people and said, ‘Please educate me, help me learn what the issue is, why that’s so important and what the other opinion is, so that I can hear both sides.’ Because if I only hear one side of an argument or an idea, then I have no ability to think and the whole idea here is we can think.