'Hung': Is The New Trans Role A Good Thing?
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/07/hung_is_the_new_trans_role_a_good_thing.php7/5/11
Jillian T. Weiss
In the popular HBO comedy-drama Hung, which stars Thomas Jane as Ray Drecker, a struggling suburban Detroit high school basketball coach who resorts to male prostitution, there is a new plot element.
According to TV Guide, Drecker will "bed down with a pre-op transgender receptionist named Kyla before contemplating a full same-sex encounter." Kyla is played by transgender actress Jamie Clayton, who previously cohosted VH1's TRANSform Me.
The TV Guide description suggests that transgender identity remains completely misunderstood by the general public:
