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The Good Fight

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ThePawtriarchy · 25/05/2020 16:16

Does anyone watch The Good Fight? The most recent episode had a story line about a female athlete that had lost her place on the Olympic swim team to a FTM transgender person. She lost her case against them but then won against an intersex person on the same team. I think they were trying to show a balanced view but the women in the practice were siding with the transgender woman which was probably realistic but felt like a moral judgement. The ending seemed to feel negative towards the female athlete - a bit ‘well if this is the only way you can get onto the team’.

I don’t know, looking to see if anybody else saw it anyway, to chat about it.

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ThePawtriarchy · 25/05/2020 18:58

I should have added spoiler sorry... I’m watching in another country too but I think there’s ways to view at the same time in the UK. I think that’s one of the things that got me actually, I usually agree with the political views in it (not hard, it’s anti-Trump), but this was, I don’t know, not what I’d hoped for - although they did cover some relevant points to start with!

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Notthefutureyet · 25/05/2020 18:47

Spoiler

Started off really well and covered a fair few things, then swung the other way, then completely copped out by disqualifying someone else from the team.

PaleBlueMoonlight · 25/05/2020 18:34

Is this the last series. I really like the Good Fight (and loved the Good Wife), but it does have a progressive (for want of a better word) agenda. It airs issues quite well, but the main characters tend to adopt the Democratic Party positions.

WTFSeriously · 25/05/2020 18:25

What is it on? I can't find it on all4?

ThePawtriarchy · 25/05/2020 17:19

I don’t know @TreestumpsAndTrampolines - see what you think, to start with I was impressed that they didn’t just mention testosterone but also talked about the male puberty advantage (probably a better way to put that) etc. so it wasn’t totally cut and dried. It seemed to swing the other way towards the end though.

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Dozer · 25/05/2020 17:13

Urgh.

TreestumpsAndTrampolines · 25/05/2020 16:50

Sigh, I have this queued to watch. Might skip it then, I just don't want the lecturing. There's a few series now I've had to drop after they've done shallow, un-thinking coverage of this issue (and surrogacy - another popular one at the moment).

ThePawtriarchy · 25/05/2020 16:32

Sorry I see you said IRL.

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ThePawtriarchy · 25/05/2020 16:32

I’m a massive fan too - Diane wasn’t involved but Liz (Audra) was the lawyer that found it transphobic.

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Dozer · 25/05/2020 16:28

Not seen this episode, but as a fan of Good Wife and (less so) Good Fight I think that IRL Diane and the lawyer played by Audra McDonald for example, would definitely be on the side of the biological woman!

ThePawtriarchy · 25/05/2020 16:25

I should add as well, that the woman lawyer was disgusted by having to be ‘transphobic’ and so refused to continue questioning so not balanced from that point of view!

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ThePawtriarchy · 25/05/2020 16:24

Argh MTF - sorry. 🤦‍♀️

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NotTerfNorCis · 25/05/2020 16:20

FTM? A female person taking testosterone?

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