Work It
By: Autumn Sandeen Sunday December 18, 2011 3:44 pm
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2011/12/18/work-it/also ABC's 'Work It' harms the transgender community – period
http://lgbtweekly.com/2011/12/22/abcs-work-it-harms-the-transgender-community-period/In the late seventies and early eighties, my Dad (Jack Sandeen) worked at Disney Studios — first as a costumer, and then as the head of the Wardrobe Department. He worked on films such as Splash, The Black Hole, and the original Tron. He passed away on June 17, 2002, and I began my transition to Autumn on February 6th of the following year.
I actually had wanted to discuss my then soon likely transition with him and my Mom, but he was terminally ill. I decided I just didn't want to add that discussion of my gender identity to the things he and my Mom were dealing with in the last year of his life.
Disney of course now owns ABC, and so somehow it seems personal when discussing a new television show scheduled to air in January where cross-gender expression and costume are key elements to a temporary ->-bleeped-<- genre program. The new ABC program in question is called Work It.
