Queen Elizabeth L portrays as trans in new ITV show

So true, I can’t believe itv have commissioned such a rediculous drama that has zero basis in facts. The history of the era was very well documented. Elizabeth I wasn’t trans, wasn’t a man and wasn’t a lesbian. She was a phenomenally strong woman in an age when men held all the power. She simply didn’t want to relinquish her power to a man, that’s why she never married.

When I first saw this, I thought it was an April fool.
Sadly not. Why does every strong woman have to be turned into a man?
Am so sick of this bollox.

The late, great Glenda Jackson was the best Queen Elizabeth. Cate Blanchett & Judi Dench would be quite close behind. Anyone else would be a travesty

Maybe someone just thought there must have been a typing error and so changed Lizard to Lesbian?

Remember the hounding that Eddie Redmayne got for playing The Danish Girl?

A male actor playing a trans woman wasn’t good enough apparently, it should have been a trans actor. According to the trans lobby, a man in a dress just reinforced harmful stereotypes.

Yeah lads, no shit.

Could actual women apply to audition? Because I fear they may be setting a precedent here by saying that only transwomen can play transwomen. Because if that's the case then surely no transwoman can be cast as in a female role - they're explicitly saying that there's a difference between women and transwomen. Isn't this just terribly, terribly transphobic?
I'm sure there'll be some mind bending reason why this isn't the case and that transwomen are definitely the same as women unless circumstances dictate that being trans offers some kind of advantage (despite being marginalised and downtrodden)

It's like a sketch from Monty Python.

This is the only thing that makes sense, but surely, what we know of Henry, he would have said “Oh well, it’s only a girl” and shrugged it off?

She can't possibly be a transwoman. We can see from her portraits that she doesn't do the head tilt.

I don't think they realised this was fictional comedy.

Could it be regarded as discrimination? Actors are actors, professionals who are pretending to be something else regardless of their sex or whatever they might identify...

I wish some brilliant male actors, good at pretending to be ‘trans gender women’ would come forward to audition.

So anyone raising objections can just be told, 'it's not meant to be real, it's an alternative history.'
Sneaky.

The casting call describes it as ‘an emotional and funny alternative history that takes place in the time of the Tudor court’ and expressly asks for applications from actors who identify as ‘transgender women’.

Do we know, is it actually going to depict Elizabeth's life and reign but show her as being male?
Or is it based on Bram Stoker's idea and is thus going to show him being pompous, misogynistic, laughing at the idea of a woman being monarch etc?
If the former, I wonder how they'll deal with the fact that she was washed and dressed by servants, probably had a woman who slept in or by her bed, had her
bedsheets changed (and examined) by servants and her periods attended to etc?

I saw the casting call a few weeks ago and thought how fucking tedious that historical strong women have to be transed, because women can’t be, you know, WOMEN.

I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too

No bloke is coming out with that.

And tedious

I agree, I was listening to a podcast that talked about it, especially how problematic Mary 1 marriage had been. Even Queen Jane(Jane Grey) held firm against making her husband king.

She knew her power and autonomy would be diminished by marriage, she would have been second fiddle to her own husband despite her being the hereditary monarch. And I imagine she saw what happened to Mary Queen of Scots when she married Lord Darnley. Who wouldn’t look at that and think, “Bugger that for a lark”?

As for this “Queen Elizabeth as trans” nonsense, I’m going to have to order more eye rolls because I’m now RIGHT OUT.

Tiresome.

This isn’t a new theory it’s been about for years. I’ve always been pissed off by it because before trans was current it was framed that she must have secretly been a man because a woman could not have ruled so well.

I agree with those saying she probably never got married because of what she experienced as a child. Her sister married and was then subject to her husband, back then for Elizabeth to have married would have meant handing power to her husband as wife’s were subject of their husbands. I believe she did it for her country, it was the best she could do in the times she lived. Trans is of our time and history should not be edited to fit with how people think today

Isn't Ann Boleyn the wife that's currently being played by a man who says he's a women in a play on Broadway at the moment. Looks like the dreadful Dylan is playing the wrong royal. 😂

Or that maybe the reason Elizabeth never had a relationship was because she had to witness her father decapitating her mother because she wasn't born male. That would give anyone trust issues.

Why would a male put on a dress and fight for their life to survive a sister Queen who they would take prominence over in the line of succession if they were male?

If they were male then their mother would have lived and produced more full blood siblings. The trans thing makes no sense on any level other than idiocy.

Agreed 😵‍💫I think you can give a fantasy a historical background ground but you can't give history a fantasy background, and expect to be taken as AUDACIOUS or ORIGINAL. 😂