Trans woman in Riot Women! WTF?

[OneBadKitty]

I usually love anything by Sally Wainwright, but what was she thinking by have a trans-woman in a band called Riot Women that is supposed to be full of menopausal women singing about HRT and other female related issues?

Because they are women who will have a menopause.
Nice internalised misogyny with the pearl clutching comment too.

A trans person should play a trans person, why do we have to replace a woman with a trans person? They aren’t women and don’t go through the problems we do.

Bigot: a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

I loved it and enjoyed the inclusion of a trans woman- which is pretty realistic for Hebden Bridge

This wanting to have a working uyteryus doest seems to og!

Totally agree

I reckon the BBC did it because we are the ones who they don't think they should have to have a show for, so they knew adding this would annoy us the most.

I can’t wait to watch it - even more so now that I know it’s inclusive.

😂token BBC bot
There you go ladies, maybe the 0.01% of the population that are trans will make the show a hit for us and get a BAFTA for it.

It’s the BBC! Of course it’s got a trans in it.

There is a scene where Nisha is sat on the wall outside her house in recovery, and Holly is trying to convince her to perform, and she says something like ‘you don’t need me you have Miranda’ and Holly says something like ‘ffs! Miranda!’ and that I thought would have been a great moment for elaboration but instead she just murmurs something about having three backing singers. It would have been good to acknowledge at this point that some women of this age range feel the threat of men in women’s spaces but as this is the bbc, no chances .

Sure

It’s a bit sad that the casting team couldn’t find a woman to play a woman’s part.

The premise of the programme sounded great but why they have they cast a man that doesn’t even look like a woman? It’s sn insult to all the female actors out there who would have loved that job. It’s not like men are underrepresented in tv.

There is nothing obstinate or unreasonable in believing that sex is immutable and that sex matters. Indeed, it is legally established as a protected belief.

I’ve stopped watching after two and a half episodes. It was all too bleeding obvious I’m afraid. I was soooo looking forward to it; Happy Valley and Last Tango were great, and To Walk Invisible was genius. But this is pretty dire, and the shoehorned in trans character was the last straw.

Except that replacing a woman with a male actor is anything but inclusive.

It’s a bit medieval tbh, you know, when women were replaced by men on stage.

There's likely to be quite a bit of this yet to run its course in popular culture, which tends to be behind the times in many ways. But I expect before too long people will be looking back in embarrassment, or pointing and laughing.

There's a "non-binary" character in a novel I'm reading at the moment, clearly only there because the writer wanted to seem "contemporary", but it already seems cringeworthy and dated. I speed-read through those silly sections and it doesn't detract too much from the rest of the story.

So completely misleading and rage bait as usual on here to get people frothing then. 🙄
As usual

Will likely get Best Actress at the BAFTAS too.
Is it also true the score was all written by a man, not a single song written by a woman?

Why?

May I ask which novel please?

That sounds like trans activism in a nutshell.

Clinging desperately to a series of falsehoods bolstered by bullying and manipulation, mainly of women.

Just a crime novel, Death at the White Hart by Chris Chibnall.

The programme is not showing representation of trans people, it is using a man to represent a woman.

Yes, as I said above, there is nothing obstinate or unreasonable in believing that sex is immutable and that sex matters. It is legally established as a protected belief. It is worth repeating because the all the trans activists do is keep shouting 'bigot'.