Annette Bening warns anti-trans lawmakers: “You do not want to make this momma mad”

Annette Bening
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Over the weekend, Annette Bening received GLSEN’s Advocate Award at the LGBTQ+ organization’s annual Rise Up L.A. benefit. The four-time Oscar nominee lived up to the award’s name, delivering an impassioned message to anti-trans lawmakers.

“You do not want to make this momma mad,” said the actor, whose son, writer Stephen Ira, is trans.

“Most of my career, I’ve been a pretty private person,” Bening said in her acceptance speech, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “But over the last several years, I’ve changed my mind.”

Bening explained that she now feels it is her responsibility “to speak out and speak up as transphobia has invaded our government at the local, state, and federal levels.”

“It is hurtful. It is shameful. And it is being used as a tool by the far right to rally their base and turn out the vote,” she said.

To illustrate the devastating effects of anti-trans legislation that has been passed in states across the country recently, Bening told the story of a friend…

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