TG Romantic Comedy

[Coppélia]

I'm a screenwriter and I've been trying to write a RomCom about a MTF transexual. What I want to do is present it in such a way that people realize transsexuals are not some kind of freak show but functioning members of society with their own romantic feelings. I've toyed with the idea of interplay between a MTF and a FTM but that just seems to isolate us from the rest of the population. In the end I want the audience to stop thinking of the character as trans but rather as just a woman.

Unfortunately for me, my forte isn't comedy at all but heavy dramas. However we have enough tragedy in our community. I felt a RomCom would be the best way to convey that we too can have happy endings. The problem I'm having right now is that I can't find a good conflict to work with without the whole story revolving around the fact that she's trans.

Let me know if you have any ideas.

[Jasmine.m]

How about something like....

A couple, man and mtf partner, travel to meet the man's parents/family for the first time. Maybe they're from the city and they have to travel to the county or something like that. They try all week to hide her transition status b/c they don't think the fam will be accepting. Hiding her transition involves a series of comedic fiasco's that get more and more outrageous until, finally, the truth comes out. Of course, everyone knew all along and is totally accepting.

[rejennyrated]

I'm a screenwriter and I've been trying to write a RomCom about a MTF transexual. What I want to do is present it in such a way that people realize transsexuals are not some kind of freak show but functioning members of society with their own romantic feelings. I've toyed with the idea of interplay between a MTF and a FTM but that just seems to isolate us from the rest of the population. In the end I want the audience to stop thinking of the character as trans but rather as just a woman.

Unfortunately for me, my forte isn't comedy at all but heavy dramas. However we have enough tragedy in our community. I felt a RomCom would be the best way to convey that we too can have happy endings. The problem I'm having right now is that I can't find a good conflict to work with without the whole story revolving around the fact that she's trans.

Let me know if you have any ideas.

Sorry but I am a longterm postop (26yrs) MtF screenwriter myself, with 25 years of experience in television, and I already have two such projects in various stages of development.

One is currently stuck in development hell, the other is being rewritten, for about the sixth time.

So I hope you will forgive me if I keep my ideas to myself.

Good luck with your project though, and may the best screenwriter win!

[tekla]

Heavy drama is easy to write compared to comedy.  Remember, that comedy is what everyone else finds funny, not just what the writer thinks of as being cleaver.

[Coppélia]

Sorry but I am a longterm postop (26yrs) MtF screenwriter myself, with 25 years of experience in television, and I already have two such projects in various stages of development.

One is currently stuck in development hell, the other is being rewritten, for about the sixth time.

So I hope you will forgive me if I keep my ideas to myself.

Good luck with your project though, and may the best screenwriter win!

lol, indeed. I understand completely. I wish you luck as well. Though you've been writing longer than I have been alive so I doubt there's a question as to who is the better screenwriter