{"id":118278,"date":"2024-08-14T07:22:41","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/josh-seiter-calls-for-trans-lead-on-the-bachelorette\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T07:22:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T07:22:41","slug":"josh-seiter-calls-for-trans-lead-on-the-bachelorette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/14\/josh-seiter-calls-for-trans-lead-on-the-bachelorette\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Seiter Calls for Trans Lead on The Bachelorette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3685518\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:125%;\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Josh Seiter<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Josh Seiter\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Josh Seiter<\/strong> is calling for radical change on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/shows\/the-bachelorette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em> The Bachelorette<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great that <em>The Bachelor<\/em> franchise is finally casting a more diverse group of people (it took long enough) but real progress has not been made until they cast a trans woman lead,\u201d Seiter, 37, shared via her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/josh_seiter_official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram Stories<\/a> on Tuesday, August 13.<\/p>\n<p>Seiter, who competed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/kaitlyn-bristowe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kaitlyn Bristowe<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s affections on <em>The Bachelorette<\/em> season 11 in 2015, came out as transgender in May.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, Seiter opened up about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/bachelorettes-josh-seiter-got-death-threats-after-coming-out-as-trans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">receiving death threats<\/a> since coming out.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/bachelor-nation-alums-share-their-lgbtq-coming-out-stories\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bachelor-Nation-Alums-Share-Their-LGBTQ-Coming-Out-Stories-Post-Show-featured.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Bachelor Nation Alums Share Their LGBTQ Coming Out Stories Post-Show\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bachelor-Nation-Alums-Share-Their-LGBTQ-Coming-Out-Stories-Post-Show-featured.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"article__title-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/bachelor-nation-alums-share-their-lgbtq-coming-out-stories\/\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">&#8216;Bachelor&#8217; Alums Who Came Out As Members of the LGBT+ Community <\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tGabby Windey, Colton Underwood and more Bachelor Nation alums are living their most authentic lives\u00a0after appearing on the franchise. Windey, for her part, revealed in August 2023 that she is dating a woman for the first time. The season 19 Bachelorette, who split from ex-fianc\u00e9 Erich Schwer in 2022 after a televised proposal, sparked a [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had death threats, people telling me they\u2019re going to hang me, they can\u2019t wait to see me so they can kill me,\u201d the <em>Bachelorette<\/em> alum said in an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-13604439\/bachelorette-josh-seiter-hate-death-threats-coming-transgender.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a> published on Monday, August 12. \u201cThese are all messages I have in my [direct message inbox].\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:177.77777777778%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3686773\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/seiter.jpg?w=720&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Josh Seiter Calls for Trans Lead on The Bachelorette&#10;\" width=\"720\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/seiter.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/seiter.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/seiter.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/seiter.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/seiter.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of Josh Seiter\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI feel like everyone always has an opinion. Usually, it\u2019s bad. Usually, the people voicing the opinion have a horrible opinion,\u201d Seiter added, explaining that she is used to dealing with negative comments online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t take life advice from people screaming at me on social media. That\u2019s just never how I\u2019ve lived my life,\u201d Seiter said. \u201cWhen I was a male stripper, people were saying nasty things about me. When I did OnlyFans, people said nasty things about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3377607\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.714285714286%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3377607\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"Bachelorette Josh Seiter Calls Instagram Hack Death Post an Attack on Mental Health 3 Kaitlyn Bristowe\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bachelorette-Josh-Seiter-Calls-Instagram-Hack-Death-Post-an-Attack-on-Mental-Health-3.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Kaitlyn Bristowe and Josh Seiter<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">ABC\/Rick Rowell<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Seiter said what has surprised her most since coming out is the lack of support she feels she\u2019s received from the LGBTQIA+ community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically, I\u2019ve actually found that the far left and the LGBTQ community have been some of the most vitriolic and mean towards me throughout all of this,\u201d she claimed. \u201cSo that\u2019s a very tough issue for me because I haven\u2019t been met with acceptance, tolerance and open arms like the left loves to preach about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Seiter came out as transgender in May via an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C7NQMSoRJ68\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emotional Instagram post<\/a>. \u201cI have struggled with my gender identity \u2014 and resulting feelings of guilt and shame \u2014 for as long as I can remember. I spent the last three decades taking great pains to keep this side private,\u201d Seiter wrote at the time. \u201cI felt I had no choice, given my upbringing in a strictly religious, conservative family. As I\u2019ve gotten older, I have tried my hardest to project the expected image of a strong, masculine son and brother.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/josh-seiter-thinks-its-time-for-a-trans-woman-to-star-on-the-bachelorette\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Seiter Courtesy of Josh Seiter\/Instagram Josh Seiter is calling for radical change on The Bachelorette. \u201cIt\u2019s great that The Bachelor franchise is finally casting a more diverse group of people (it took long enough) but real progress has not been made until they cast a trans woman lead,\u201d Seiter, 37, shared via her Instagram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-118278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}