Scarlett Johansson gives up trans film role following backlash
Scarlett Johansson has recently exited from a fact-based drama "Rub & Tug" after her casting as a trans-man angered trans actors and activists. ""Rub & Tug focused on Dante "Tex" Gill, a crime kingpin who used his massage parlor as a front for prostitution in the '70s and '80s,"writes the Variety. "Dante "Tex" Gill, who was born Lois Jean Gill but identified as a man. The massage parlors he owned were used as…