Young, Transgender and Acting on TV

[stephaniec]

Young, Transgender and Acting on TV

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/arts/television/young-transgender-and-acting-on-tv.html?_r=0

New York Times/By KATIE ROGERSOCT. 7, 2016

"In a recent episode of "Modern Family," two children, a boy and a girl, play a round of broom hockey in a living room. In those 12 seconds, the first openly transgender child appeared as a transgender character in a mainstream sitcom."

[julogden]

I can't describe how wonderful that makes me feel! 

At age 65, it boggles my mind to see such acceptance in the entertainment world. It was a radically different world when I was a kid. When I was 5, I got caught playing dress-up with a neighbor girl by the girl's mother, and I was beaten, kicked, screamed at and threatened with death by her mother if she ever caught me doing that again, so I learned at a very young age to not let anyone know about my apparently terrible secret. My father repeatedly angrily told me as I grew up that if I'd been a kid in his neighborhood when he was a kid, he and his friends would have known how to deal with me, and while I didn't know exactly what would have been involved, it was clear to me that it would not have been a good thing.