Amanda Abbington Does Injury Management Over Resurfaced Tweets Reportedly Opposing ‘Over-Sexualized’ Drag Present For Children

Actress Amanda Abbington has deleted her Twitter account and issued an apology after a few of her tweets addressing a drag present for youths resurfaced.

Abbington, who was lately forged within the BBC present “Strictly Come Dancing,” made feedback on Twitter in March criticizing a drag present the place a performer danced in a “extremely sexualized manner” for youngsters, based on Deadline. (RELATED: Ne-Yo Apologizes For Asking Why It’s A ‘Good Concept’ To Let Children Decide Their Gender)

“I’m sorry for those who really feel such as you would boycott Strictly for a tweet I made a couple of drag present,” Abbington mentioned in an Instagram video. “I’m not a transphobic particular person, I’m a agency supporter of the legit trans neighborhood. I at all times have been.”

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“What we have to do now greater than ever is simply make it possible for all people is taking care of one another. It’s fucking poisonous on the market. It’s horrible,” Abbington mentioned, including there are individuals within the transgender motion who “need to trigger harm.”

Abbington mentioned in a Fb publish in 2020 that, “You can’t have a penis and need to be known as a lady,” based on Deadline.

“I used to be hounded off Twitter and have repeatedly been accused of being a TERF for merely eager to have a dialogue about it. A dialogue. As a result of it isn’t fucken black and white,” Abbington reportedly posted to social media, based on Metro.

Abbington has additionally been criticized for reportedly liking a publish from journalist Sonia Poulton that learn partly, “I can’t be compelled to name a person a lady & vice versa.”