Posted on 11/09/2021 3:25:47 PM PST by nickcarraway
Ingo Rademacher also shared an anti-transgender meme on social media Sunday, prompting backlash from some castmates.
Long-time General Hospital star Ingo Rademacher is out at the ABC daytime drama. He was let go after not complying with the production’s COVID vaccine mandate, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.
News of his departure also comes a day after castmates called Rademacher out for sharing an anti-transgender meme on social media. Rademacher’s final episode on the show, where he’s been a regular for most of the past 25 years, is slated for Nov. 22.
Reps for ABC confirm that Rademacher ended his association with General Hospital prior to Sunday.
Rademacher has been outspoken against vaccine mandates. He shared calls for a walkout by health care and government workers this week in his Instagram Stories over the weekend, and said in an Instagram post Sunday, “I will stand with you to fight for medical freedom.”
Rademacher on Sunday also shared a photo of Dr. Rachel Levine, the first transgender person to earn four-star rank in the U.S. uniformed services, and newly elected Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, who will be the first Black woman to hold the post, via Instagram Stories. The caption on the photo reads “Hello, and welcome to ClownTown, where the dude on the left is an empowering woman, and the woman on the right is a white supremacist.”
The post drew sharp criticism from fellow General Hospital stars Cassandra James, a transgender woman, and Nancy Lee Grahn. “I am aware of a transphobic post shared by a fellow General Hospital actor. Shame on you,” James wrote on Twitter. “You have some serious unlearning and education to do. I feel deeply disappointed that such a public display of ignorance could come from our GH family.”
James added, “Misgendering trans folks is violence and if you come for one of us, you come for all of us. The cis world doesn’t get to decide which of us is valuable. I am so proud of the fans for always holding us to a high standard, for calling out transphobia and violence.”
Grahn replied to James’ tweet, writing that Rademacher “is mercifully no longer a part of the GH cast. Transphobia & misgendering are disgusting & should be unacceptable in any industry, including soaps/acting. I stand with my costar [James] & the trans community.”
Rademacher doubled down on sharing the meme in an Instagram post Monday, saying in a video that while he thinks it’s “not OK” to call a Black woman a white supremacist, “I don’t think either it’s OK to call a transgender an empowered woman, because where does that leave women?”
“I do apologize for not crossing out ‘dude’ and putting in transgender,” he says later in the video. “Me personally, I wouldn’t have written it that way.” He added that in sharing the post he wanted to call out “the hypocrisy of the left-wing media.”
Rademacher also apologized to James — “I think you’re an absolute talent and you’re very beautiful as well; I don’t think a transphobic man would say that” — and said he would address his status on General Hospital at another time. He then shared an anecdote about his son wanting to a wear a Disney princess dress when he was 3 years old. “I don’t think a transphobic dad would buy his son a Disney princess dress,” he said.
Rademacher has played Jasper “Jax” Jacks on General Hospital since 1996. He also did a year-long stint on CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful from 2017-18 before returning to GH in 2019.
ABC and its parent Disney have dealt with several social media-related controversies in recent years. The network fired Roseanne Barr from its breakout hit Roseanne revival in 2018 after she posted a racist tweet about former Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
Earlier this year, The Mandalorian‘s Gina Carano was let go from the Disney+ series and dropped by agency UTA after a social media post that compared being a Republican to being Jewish in the Holocaust. Emilio Estevez won’t return for season two of the streamer’s Mighty Ducks: Game Changers over what he termed “a myriad of creative differences” in a statement to Deadline; the site also reported that Estevez contracted COVID last year. Sources tell THR Estevez isn’t vaccinated.
“James added, “Misgendering trans folks is violence…”
I long for the day that these lunatics learn what real violence is.
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In our upside-down world, “mis-gendering” means calling them by their real biological gender.
Sex. The word is sex.
Gender is for objects. Sex is for animals.
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It's different today...the large majority of women who are home during the day are of limited intelligence and limited household income.
Is it just personal injury lawyers who sponsor soaps today rather than laundry powder?
With that Luke-Laura rape thing you think they'd be in no position to give anybody a hard time over this.
People still watch this crap?! I remember when this was known as a soap opera.
Respect.
Good on you, Ingo!
Oh, man. They fired Roseanne Barr?
About 80% of this article is irrelevant.
He refused vax, his body, his choice, plenty of reason to not want to be a guinea pig.
The remainder of the article is intended to paint the guy as an imaginary white supremacist anti-democracy racist, which is weird since he wears a dress.
About 80% of this article is irrelevant.
He refused vax, his body, his choice, plenty of reason to not want to be a guinea pig.
The remainder of the article is intended to paint the guy as an imaginary white supremacist anti-democracy racist, which is weird since he wears a dress.
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The Republicans are a little better, but not by much.
They took on a doctor who has turned out to be a psyco with a goal of using a man made virus to kill millions.
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Firing a soap opera star for speaking the TRUTH..yeah that’s a DUDE OK..there is NO such thing as “transgender” its called mental illness
I used to be a die hard fan of Days of Our Lives..til they started with their left wing storylines, homo “Marriage” stopped watching the show
Good, maybe the low information demographic that watches these might wake up.
I watch GH. The tranny on the show is pretty obviously a man, an effeminate man, but a man, no matter how much they try to “prettify” him (and the character is completely uninteresting and forgettable). I know Grahn is a militant leftist, but openly supporting the purging castmates of 25 years is really disgusting and evil. Shame on them. Crap like this will hasten the show’s cancellation after 6 decades. The viewers don’t want to see gays and trannies, which they’ve tried to push for years, only to often make the characters quietly go away when they end up being (no surprise) unpopular. They generally are women who want to see masculine males like Ingo, not mutilated males like “Cassandra.”
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