SouthernVoice.com – By Zack Hudson
Talk show apologizes for jokes on transgender beauty
On the heels of being publicly called out by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the producers of late-night ABC gab fest ?Jimmy Kimmel Live!? apologized for a recent rant of jokes by host Jimmy Kimmel about the appearance of transgender women.
?In the future, please know we will be more sensitive should a similar circumstance arise,? show staff members wrote in a March 2 letter to GLAAD.
Along with transgender activists from across the country, GLAAD objected to remarks Kimmel made during an interview with actress Rebecca Romijn that aired Feb. 21. Romijn portrays Alexis Meade, a transgender woman who faked her own death as a man, then returned as a woman, to shock and overall acceptance on the hit ABC comedy ?Ugly Betty.?