This is something that crossed my mind many times before, so I figured I would post about it. The scenario I am envisioning is this: what would happen if a transgender person was nominated for a major music/film/television/etc. award? Of course, the majority of those awards are gender neutral, but I'm more interested in the gender specific ones: Best Actress, Best Male Voice, Best Female Artist, etc.
I suppose much of it would depend on whether he or she was openly transgender. I can't help but bring to mind Lana Wachowski (of the Matrix movies) recently coming out and her status as a well-known director. I have no doubts some narrow-minded bigot would contest/boycott/complain; they couldn't stand the thought that the "man in the dress" just won a woman's award.
(tongue-in-cheek there, of course)
Would their nomination (or maybe even win?) go the way of Renee Richards and her experience in the Women's US Open?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_RichardsWould Pat Robertson explode if Chaz Bono someday won Best Supporting Male Actor? Or if Kim Petras won Best Female Artist?
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Random factoid: Wendy Carlos, a transgender woman, won 3 (gender neutral) Grammy awards in 1969 under the Classical music category.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carlos Go, Team T!
