Maybe, but it’s not like 40 or 50 years ago when speaking roles as Native Americans were almost universally cast with white people wearing a lot of bronzer.

OK, fine.  But I’ve seen photos, and you certainly can’t deny the burly part.  

A number of trans actors have addressed this point:  all of this wouldn’t be so bad if trans actors were ever given a chance to play cis characters of their gender.  But they aren’t.  So as long as that opportunity is closed to them, they should at least be considered first for trans roles.  Especially in preference…

Just talking about team sports, you do know that baseball is extraordinarily popular all through Latin America, Japan, and South Korea? In other words, a lot more than two countries!  And how about men’s and women’s basketball -- Spain, France, Italy, the Baltic countries, Russia, China, South America?

Definitely file a complaint with your state bar association.  I’d be very surprised if they had the right t0 go beyond the amount of your retainer without your permission.

I’m sorry things are so hard.  But I promise you that living with your parents at 29 does not make you a loser.  Lots of people have to, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

You need to block this man permanently.  You don’t need that kind of nastiness in your life.  Nobody does.

How about a laser pointer, although that something you have do with your cat, as opposed to leaving it for the cat to play with?

You’re comparing the experience of having had a particular illness to something like gender?  Then why is it not like race?  Why do you draw the line where you do?

As Trace Lysette pointed out, this wouldn’t be so bad if trans people ever got cast as non-trans people. They’re almost never considered for roles like that, because people don’t believe they can play them.  So at least they should be seriously considered to play trans roles

Unfortunately, trans actors get cast only in trans roles.  But they’re shut out of even those roles because of vanity projects like this one.

I assume you agree that white actors shouldn’t play black people or Native Americans in blackface or redface.  Why is transface any different?  Where do you draw the line?

Would you say the same if she played a black person or a Native American?

And the person she’s playing was a tall, burly trans guy. She’s about 5' 3". So she doesn’t even work for physical resemblance, never mind being the wrong gender. I suppose you’d be OK with casting her as Harriet Tubman for the reasons you state?

Of course, the focus on “penis-havers” vs. “vagina-havers” is a red herring. These people are equally hateful towards trans women who have vaginas. If you ever had a penis, you’re tainted forever — it’s an original, ineradicable sin. Plus, a trans woman’s vagina isn’t a real vagina anyway: it’s an “unhealed surgical…

Neither I nor any other trans woman I know claims that my experiences are identical to those of cis women, or that I arrived where I am now by the same path that cis women did. It’s not bigotry to acknowledge the existence of those differences. What’s bigotry is to focus only on the differences to the exclusion of the…

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Bullshit.  The fact that a handful of people apply the term inaccurately doesn’t make it a slur.

The fundamental problem with TERF rhetoric (like that of Eartha Kittenheels in this thread) is that it’s entirely circular. It assumes that trans women are men. Once you assume that, everything they say sounds entirely logical. And of course any non-trans person who challenges the assumption is either a victim of…

I’ve repeatedly complained to Facebook about posts denying the Holocaust — while simultaneously posting cartoons of Jews in gas chambers. (Because the Holocaust didn’t happen, but if it did we deserved it.)  And I’ve been told every time that Holocaust denial does not violate Facebook’s community standards.