| adidas198 said: If this was the story of a woman transitioning into a man then I would understand casting a female actress, but since this is gonna be a transgender character all the way through (from what I read) then it is better to hire a transgender male actor instead. |
Yeah, I'm kinda torn on this. On the one hand, I see their point about having accurate portrayals of characters on-screen, especially minority characters (again, I bring up the example of a 6'4" black guy with six packs playing a short Asian school girl), but then again, this is largely the same crowd who was calling people racist/sexist for disliking the new Fantastic Four and GhostBusters movies (even though the "blackwashing" of Johnny Storm was probably the least of that film's problems) or having a problem with Green Ranger being turned into a woman in the planned Power Rangers sequel (this WAS being discussed). We can ignore the essence and tradition of iconic male characters and let women claim them as their own, but God forbid they try to play a trans character. That's hypocritical, and downright ridiculous.
Last edited by KManX89 - on 19 July 2018
