Pushing the transsexual envelope

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By ROGER CATLIN
Hartford Courant
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/tv/5272599.html

No, to add shock to TV shows in 2007, writers have turned to transsexuals.

How surprising was it last season on Ugly Betty when Alex, the long-lost brother of Mode magazine editor-in-chief Daniel Mead, returned as Alexis, who was not only a woman but also a woman who looks like Rebecca Romijn (exactly like her, as it turned out)?