Dominique Jackson’s “Devil Wears Prada” Parody Calls Out Cis Gay Apathy On Trans Rights
Dominique Jackson has reworked the cerulean monologue from The Devil Wears Prada and aimed the punchline straight at the gay men who think anti-trans attacks have nothing to do with them. The Pose star teamed up with the Gender Liberation Movement (GLM) on the clip, posted to Instagram on 6 May 2026.
In the parody, Jackson steps into Meryl Streep’s Miranda Priestly shoes. Anne Hathaway’s clueless intern is recast as a cis gay assistant. He smirks at two T-shirts on the desk reading, “Hands off my ‘mones” and “Protect the dolls,” tells Jackson the shirts “look exactly the same” to him, and rolls his eyes at “bathrooms, sports, hormones, you know. I’m just learning this gender stuff.”
That is where the cerulean speech kicks in.
The lecture, refined for 2026…
“What you don’t realise is that this ‘gender stuff’ is not just bathrooms or hormones or sports,” Jackson says. “It’s actually attacks on all of us.”
She walks the intern through the legislative pipeline aimed at LGBTQIA+ people in the United States, from medical bans to family-court interference.
She closes with the line that has been doing the rounds online ever since. “It’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve built a life that makes you exempt from the attacks, when in fact, your very own gay rights were secured by trans people on the front lines.”
Why Dominique Jackson is the right person to deliver it
Jackson, who played the imperious Elektra Abundance across all three seasons of Pose, has spent years being one of the most quotable trans women on screen. Casting her as Miranda is more than a meme. The original cerulean speech was about a clueless girl who thought her sweater had nothing to do with the fashion industry. Swap the sweater for a “Protect the dolls” tee and the logic does not change.
The campaign behind the video
The clip serves as the launch for GLM’s “Gender Liberation Is For Every/Body” fundraising drive. The non-profit is aiming to raise $250,000 by the end of Pride Month to continue its work on trans rights and bodily autonomy in the United States.
“This ‘gender stuff’ isn’t just about trans people,” the campaign page reads. “It’s attacks on families, medical providers, attacks on you, and we need to fight together now more than ever.”
Jackson and GLM did not write a think piece about it. They took Meryl Streep’s chair for ninety seconds and reframed the entire argument. Watch the parody on Instagram, then have a think about which side of the desk you have been sitting on.
