Will Ferrell and Harper Steele‘s visit to the Lone Star State was not met with southern hospitality. While discussing their Netflix documentary Will & Harper, the longtime friends recounted an “intense” moment of transphobic microaggression at Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas, which didn’t make it into the final cut. “We gave a little toast, and I said something about passing a trans bill,” Steele told The New York Times. “And the room did a kind of reversal and a little bit of a boo and a woman shouted out, ‘We still love you.’ I hate the phrase.
I could be misinterpreting this woman completely, but this is the feeling I had in the room: The ‘still’ is conditional. You still love me when I finally give up being trans and give my life over to Christ.
They still love me even though I’m some kind of sinner or something. I felt that.” Steele explained, “The room started to feel very wrong to me.
I was feeling a little like my transness was on display, I guess, and suddenly that sort of made me feel not great.” Last year, Texas Gov.
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