The 13 Oscar nominations for Emilia Pérez prove that Biden-era Hollywood loves the Mexican drug cartels, genital mutilation, and the cult of trans terrorists that’s been reported only by social media investigative reporters. It’s all apparent through the first-ever nomination of a male performer — Karla Sofía Gascón (né Carlos Gascón) — for the best-actress Oscar, ratifying Biden’s equity program.

As usual, mainstream media supports far-left insanity by normalizing Emilia Pérez. Variety’s Katcy Stephan ignores the politically inconvenient history of Karla Gascón’s previous identity as Carlos Gascón, who, as a male, had a long career in Spanish films and telenovelas. Variety omits relevant facts.

“Karla Sofía Gascón has become the first openly transgender actor to be nominated for an Academy Award,” Stephan writes. As a concession to a political movement, Stephan repeatedly refers to Gascón using the progressives’ preferred pronoun “her,” rather than risk offense by stating biological fact. She also avoids mentioning the peculiarity of the Academy’s exceptional acceptance of Gascón among a slate that includes four female nominees. Gascón shared a best-actress prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and received distaff nominations from the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, the article notes. This is how a social revolution — not merely journalistic niceties — is won, when it’s made to seem normal and polite.

A lone social media filmmaker spoke out honestly: “I do find it funny that men have a chance at winning ¾ of the acting awards at this years Oscars. Suck it women!!!” The observant prankster revealed how any feminists who hail the Academy’s berserk nomination are their own worst enemy.

But the media is complicit in this ruse. Hiding Gascón’s career history correlates to local New York media’s hiding the identity of Jaia Cruz, 24, who killed a man in a delicatessen line and was soon released from jail: News accounts referred to Cruz as “a woman” rather than “a trans woman” or “a man.”

Instead, the trade press has attacked Gascón for social media posts uncovered by a renegade freelancer, Sarah Hagi, who identifies as a black Muslim and who is Canadian but writes hit-pieces for U.S. media. The trade press has heroized Hagi for exposing dated “racist tweets” by Gascón. Gascón’s posts ranged from criticizing Black Lives Matter and questioning the credibility of the George Floyd scandal to what Hagi claims were endorsements of Adolf Hitler.

So a Muslim in a hijab attacks a trans performer who identifies as a woman yet doesn’t kowtow to all the liberal pieties. It’s an almost humorous fulfillment of the prediction that the Left will eat itself. This is an aberration of progressivism — the flip side of beleaguered social media gadfly Andy Ngo, the independent muckraker who exposes mainstream media’s protection of Antifa. Ngo recently tracked the January 20 killing of a border-patrol agent in Vermont to an alleged violent trans cult.

But the unserious Hollywood trade press remains trivial. Variety went for standard left-Hollywood accusations. Daniel D’Addario wrote a piece on the Gascón affair, with a headline calling Gascón “the Donald Trump of Oscar Season.” D’Addario mentions President Trump nearly as often as he mentions Gascón. A former television critic for Time, D’Addario uses prejudiced phrases — “the politics of prejudice emanating from President Trump,” “our current, entertainment-obsessed president” — even digging-up the Obama birth certificate controversy and the tired comparisons of Trump to Hitler. D’Addario practices code phrases the same way that Gascón’s old tweets, according to Hagi, issued “dog whistles.”

Variety and the Hollywood Reporter and The Wrap betray their own integrity by waging industry vendettas against Gascón and Trump as if both were infidels to the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) cause.

What makes this fracas serious is the underlying media mania for cancellation and censorship — of a performer and a president. It’s an extension of the angry zeal that has overtaken the media in general, from legacy publications to the internet upstarts that all mistake partisan activism for journalism. The idea is to effect the revolution in gender and identity that is part of the social transformation progressives demand be installed in our language and thinking. The Academy’s endorsement of Karla or Carlos Gascón has exposed the trade media, transforming it into a medium of spite.