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Actor Misha Collins, who played the angel Castiel from Season 4 through the show\u2019s final season of \u201cSupernatural,\u201d released a video Wednesday calling transgender rights a cause Republicans should embrace \u2014 and declaring that he and his co-host are \u201cdeeply ashamed\u201d of the country during Pride Month over what he described as a government campaign against the transgender community.<\/p>\n

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In a post on his Substack, Mr. Collins wrote that he and co-host Emily Farallon \u201cwish we could be proud of our country this Pride Month, but instead, we are deeply ashamed \u2014 particularly of how our trans community has been attacked by our government.\u201d He cited the discharge of transgender service members, passport restrictions on gender identity markers \u2014 which he said effectively bars travel for many Americans \u2014 and what he described as a spike in hate crimes linked to anti-trans rhetoric from the White House.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr. Collins also pointed to state-level legislation, including a Kansas law he said voided the driver\u2019s licenses of transgender people immediately upon passage, making it \u201cliterally illegal for them to even drive to the DMV to update their licenses.\u201d He called it part of \u201ca systemic pattern of oppression, legislating away the rights, freedoms, and even safety of trans people across our nation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the accompanying video, Mr. Collins argued that transgender rights should resonate with Republican voters on libertarian grounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Republican ethos for so long has been: \u2019Government, stay out of my business,\u2019\u201d he said, adding that he found it \u201cmaddening\u201d that conservatives had not adopted transgender protections as their own cause. \u201cStay out of our business. Let people make their own choices in life,\u201d Mr. Collins said. \u201cIt seems this almost should be something that is a conservative rallying call.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Collins hosted transgender rights journalist Erin Reed, who publishes the newsletter \u201cErin in the Morning\u201d and is the creator of the Trans Safety Map project, and Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr for the conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ms. Zephyr, a Democrat from Missoula, is the first openly transgender lawmaker elected in Montana. She won reelection in November 2024 after being censured and barred from the House floor in 2023 following remarks she made opposing a ban on gender-affirming care for minors. <\/p>\n

Mr. Collins portrayed Castiel in nearly 150 episodes of \u201cSupernatural\u201d from the character\u2019s introduction in Season 4 in 2008 through the show\u2019s conclusion in 2020.<\/p>\n

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