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Trans actors complaining about casting

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TimeForDebate · 14/09/2018 00:07

Trans actors are complaining that cisgender actors are playing trans characters, and that this shouldn't be allowed.

But ...

If 'trans women are women, and trans men are men ...' surely ... under their own logic, it's completely irrelevant? It shouldn't matter a bit whether actors are trans or women etc. Aren't they getting all muddled up, suggesting trans men and trans women ... aren't?

Or is that only when it suits them?

www.glamour.com/story/should-cisgender-actors-be-allowed-to-play-transgender-characters

Trans actors complaining about casting
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BettyDuMonde · 14/09/2018 07:01

Absolutely deepwatersolo

Kathryn Hunter playing Richard III made a huge impression on me.

www.atgtickets.com/blog/women-in-male-roles/

Theoretically, trans actors could be some of the most versatile/adaptable of all.
Insisting on having one’s own boxes reserved just for you (and those like you) has the counterproductive effect of pigeonholing trans actors in casting agents minds.

ICJump · 14/09/2018 06:56

Althought if someone wanted to launch a campaign to stop non Australian doing Australian accents I’d be totally up for that

ICJump · 14/09/2018 06:55

It was trans casting that peaked me. I was initially concerned that a trans women was being played by a woman and raised it here. It was an enlightening conversation and almondcakes sent me several videos. Now I’m gender critical!

deepwatersolo · 14/09/2018 06:54

Man, ‚some people are nonbelievers, get over it‘ sounds like a Slogan I‘d like to wear. You can protest the gender cult, the neoliberal cult - Heck, it would even make sense as a Graffiti in isis territory!

deepwatersolo · 14/09/2018 06:50

Bollocks. If anything, they should complain about not being casted enough for roles in general.
In the 90‘s there was a Shakespearean movie with a Black Prince - that type of unconventional casting makes way more sense than ‚everyone can only play their own lived identity‘. But it has to be done in a smart way - the 50‘s Hollywood flicks about Asia where pretty much all characters are whites in yellowface are insufferable.

BettyDuMonde · 14/09/2018 06:40

‘Some People Know
Gender
Is
Oppressive

Get
Over
It’

CountFosco · 14/09/2018 06:35

Wonder where we'd find an alien to play Dr Who?

GulagMilkMonitor · 14/09/2018 06:33

Actors are actors!

GulagMilkMonitor · 14/09/2018 06:33

Actors are actors!

Didactylos · 14/09/2018 06:32

Do you think it would be possible to T shirts printed that say - Trans women are trans - get over it? and 'Some people are non-believers*. Get over it'
*eg do not subscribe to the cult of gender identity

Lazypoolday · 14/09/2018 00:53

Chaz bono who is a trans man has played "cis" male characters in American horror story. Is that not allowed then if we follow their logic?

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TimeForDebate · 14/09/2018 00:47

Yep. #peaktrans

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Mrskeats · 14/09/2018 00:13

So presumably if you make a vampire film you have to cast a real vampire?
What a load of bollocks, acting is about playing someone else.
And cis can fuck off.