“For many decades, I performed ‘woman’ with the long hair and the makeup,” Ramirez, who’s non-binary, instructed The Shorten. “Sometimes it was me, and sometimes it was survival.”

Then again, the reporter stated Ramirez’s Che Diaz has brought about “plenty of eye-rolling from the (mostly younger) queer people I know, who found the character a hyperbolized, hypercringe representation of nonbinary identity.”

Time the thing identified the similarities between Ramirez and Che—each non-binary folks of Mexican and Irish descent—Ramirez doubled i’m sick that their personality isn’t an extension of themself. “I’m an actor,” Ramirez instructed The Shorten. “I’m not the characters I play. I’m not Che Diaz.”

Ramirez additional distanced themselves from Che’s storyline of their Instagram rebuttal, stressing that they don’t seem to be “the fictional characters I have played, nor am I responsible for the things that are written for them to say.”

“I am a human being, an artist, an actor,” Ramirez added. “And we are living in a world that has become increasingly hostile toward anyone who dares to free themselves from the gender binary, or disrupt the mainstream.”