Queen Elizabeth L portrays as trans in new ITV show

[LeftBoobGoneRogue]

I have not seen another thread about this so far. I was really annoyed to read about this. Is nothing sacred?
https://www.aol.co.uk/articles/claiming-elizabeth-trans-misogyny-cloaked-165259912.html

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

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

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 don't think they realised this was fictional comedy.

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

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?

It's like a sketch from Monty Python.

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)

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.

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

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

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.

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.