Pam's Ponderings-The T-Girl On Harry's Law

[Butterfly]

Pam's Ponderings-The T-Girl On Harry's Law
Transgriot
By Monica Roberts
22 March, 2011


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/03/pams-ponderings-t-girl-on-harrys-law.html


I watched Harry's Law for the first time last night. I only tuned in because I read here at Facebook that they were going to do a trans story. I didn't think much of the storyline. I found it to be nothing out of the ordinary and quite stereotypical. Hell, in my opinion it was a flop.

The trans girl worked as an entertainer in a nightclub that had transsexuals as regular habitués. She was fired because she was having an affair with the manager or owner of the club. His wife wanted her gone.

I watched quite a bit of it, but I got bored with the whole thing, turned it off and drifted off to dreamland.

But no questions were raised about this man's sexuality. He was involved with a transsexual, whom I assumed was pre-op. He was married with children and having an affair with a t-girl. It seems that some of those straight characters would have commented on that and raised an eyebrow while doing so.

[Tammy Hope]

there was a point in which the owner is explaining what he doesn't want his kids to find out and he says "they'll find out their father is unfaithful, that he's..." - and the sentence never finishes.

Amanda WAS pre-op because at the end of the ep the lawyer is telling her what a beautiful woman she was and she finished the sentence with "with a penis"

I think the writer here was thinking too hard about it - it wasn't ear-shaking stuff but it also wasn't insulting or cartoonish or any of that and therefore, i think it was good work.