'Survivor' Alumni React to Season 37 Winner, Kentucky Lawmaker's Anti-Trans Vote

Kentucky State Rep. and winner of "Survivor" in 2018 Nick Wilson voted for a state law that attacks transgender youth – and his fellow reality show veterans are expressing shock, dismay, and rage.

Cinema Blend detailed that Wilson, 32, who was elected to the post last year, cast his vote in favor of a bill "that would prohibit most health care for trans minors and control what bathrooms they use, as well as limit what sexuality-related subjects school districts are allowed to discuss," and also "require parents given written consent for their child to receive any sexual education, including information about STDs."

Ironically, Wilson won the competition reality show in 2018, the same season as openly gay "White Lotus" creator Mike White – a contestant that many thought ought to have been the season's victor.

In another irony, "One of the former players who voiced his displeasure about Nick Wilson's vote is fan favorite Ricard Foyé" from Season 41. "Foyé is married to a trans man," Cinema Blend noted, "and he and Wilson recently bonded over their partners being pregnant while sharing a beer."

In a social media post, Foyé recounted that during their conversation, Wilson was "So kind. So sweet," and added that he "couldn't have felt more understood" by the Republican lawmaker.

But Wilson's vote for the anti-LGBTQ+ law struck a jarring, discordant note. "Who the fuck was that person I met?" Foyé lamented "Honestly? If you're accepting behind closed doors but your political career allows you to disregard the actual real life people in front of you... who the fuck are you? I don't know this man who votes against trans & gay rights."

Going on to say that the ongoing wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation – and especially state laws targeting the health and freedoms of transgender youth – is "political madness" and "such a fucking act," Foyé decalred, "We bonded over our babies being on the way, as two soon-to-be (3rd time for me) dads... but I guess my fam ain't really shit, huh?"

"Erasing our pic now," Foyé added. "I'm good."

"Foyé is far from the only former 'Survivor' contestant that has spoken out," Cinema Blend noted, with "Omar Zaheer from 'Survivor' 42 also [getting] in a sick burn that referenced Wilson's final tribal council..."

"The above quote is, of course, a reference to the final vote in 'Survivor' 37," Cinema Blend recalled, in which "Nick won the final tribal counsel by a vote of 7-3 but many felt 'White Lotus' creator and 'Survivor' superfan Mike White should have been rewarded for expertly riding the middle to the finale."

Check out tweets from some other "Survivor" alumni below.

But don't expect Wilson to respond on social media. "Since the outpouring of negativity, Wilson made his Instagram account private," Cinema Blend said. "He has not spoken publicly about his vote," the site went on to add.