MUST WATCH: Woke actress Bella Thorne cries over Bill Maher's trans joke

Actress Bella Thorne cried when Bill Maher made a joke about trans people. 

"There's a lot of trans," Maher said, as Thorne smoked and danced in her chair. "I always see that in the paper about someone who has switched their sex," Maher continued.

"Yes," Thorne said.

"Which I'm all—if that what makes you, if that's what blows your dress up," Maher said.

"Bad bitches all the way," Thorne said. Maher didn't get what she was saying so she repeated herself earnestly. "Bad bitches," she emphasized, "Be who you are!" She pounded the armrest of her chair with her fist and exhaled the smoke. 

"Yes," she said, "claps, claps, makes me happy."

"I think there's some sort money to be made in some sort of exchange with everyone switching where like, y'know, if you need a penis take a penis, if you have a penis, give a penis, y'know, like if people are becoming like men to women, they are going to cut off their penis. And if there are women transitioning who are going to need a penis. I feel like if there was some exchange, maybe Bitcoin could be involved, ya know, no?" Maher said, laughing.

Thorne looked horrified. She did not laugh.

"I just don't like joking about—"

"Oh no, oh Bella," Maher said.

"I know," she said, "I know you like to, but I don't think—"

Maher lamented Thorne's lack of humor. 

"I don't think it's funny," she said. "I'm sorry."

"Oh for f*ck's sake, what a shame," Maher said. "You don't have to be sorry, but I'm not sorry either. And that is where your anxiety comes from. There is nothing wrong with joking, nothing wrong about that. Not everybody is that sensitive, not everybody needs to be that sensitive. Even the people who are doing that would need to be offended by that. Everybody is so easily offended. You kids, you wake up offended. You should get off Twitter, get off social media and maybe you wouldn't have this anxiety. Because I don't know if you're really offended or if you're just worried that you're going to look offended."

"No," she replied, "I'm 100 percent offended. Like when I think about, y'know, someone's trauma and someone's—the videos that I have seen that are so, like, so f*cking bad."

At that, Thorne got a little choked up but continued.

"And when people have to worry about walking on the street being themselves like. That's f*cking anxiety, that's why I don't like to like joke about it because you know someone hears it and on a public platform is so bad because you're like kind of low-key spreading like this like 'oh ha ha ha' and it's like, not funny."

The actress-turned-influencer has over 6 million followers on X, 5.6 million on TikTok, 660,000 on YouTube, and 25 million on Instagram. She has published books of poetry about her "mental struggles."

She appeared on a show with Bill Maher and he joked about her anxiety. Paper, Complex, and The Daily Beast, all rushed to Thorne's rescue. She told Maher she smoked weed to help with her stomach issues and "crippling anxiety."