Seems much transactivism is now being focussed on the status of 'mother'
Telegraph article interviewing the transgender actor in the new Baptiste series:
'Baptiste star Talisa Garcia: 'I don't expect everyone to accept me as a woman'
My story is huge… but it’s not sad,” says Talisa Garcia, the Chilean-born English actress who plays Kim Vogel in Baptiste, the BBC’s new six-part crime drama spin-off of The Missing. Following a twist at the end of tonight’s episode in which French detective Julien Baptiste, played by Tcheky Karyo, discovers that Vogel was born male, Garcia has chosen to reveal for the first time that she, too, has had gender reassignment surgery, when she was 18.
“For me, it has always been a secret. I was a bit embarrassed, I suppose, of not being a ‘normal’ woman,” she admits, making air quotes with her hands. (continues)
concludes:
"Garcia also forthright in her belief that, in recent years, transgender rights activists may have done more harm to the cause than good. “This is where we get into the really hard bit,” she says. “Nowadays, we have to be very careful with what we say and what’s politically correct”. Although she won’t elaborate much further, she does say that transgender toilets are “the worst thing that could ever happen”.
“When will it stop?” she says. “We need to drop the labels. There are so many labels, people don’t know what’s what any more.”
While she thinks her appearance in Baptiste will help move the needle of public opinion on the issue of transgender, she hopes her next big role will be motherhood: she would love to start a family “if the right person comes along”. She knows she can’t have children of her own, but, having been adopted herself, doesn’t mind.
Until then, Garcia is keen to play a parent on screen. “When you cast a transgender woman who happens to be a mother, people will start looking at it for what it is: normal.”
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