![]() ![]() Jen Richards, an actor who has appeared in AMC’s “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches” and FX’s “Better Things,” said she still feels a lot of jobs go to trans people in Hollywood to check off a diversity and inclusion mandate. This is a civil rights movement of our generation.” “We want to write those roles for those people. We have yet to even have truly a trans movie star,” Baloue said. “We don’t have a trans or non-binary ‘Will and Grace.’ We’re not in sitcoms. “Why are cisgender showrunners doing that to trans and nonbinary writers? We have the right to tell our own stories.”īaloue said it’s eye-opening to study the arenas where trans characters have been welcomed and where they haven’t. “You would never have a white showrunner create a Black show without Black writers and then hire a token Black person and say, ‘Hey, can you give us the greenlight on this Black story,’ ” Baloue said. Sydney Baloue, whose credits include the CW series “Tom Swift,” emphasized that representation matters when trans stories are told in mainstream media. “You have to commit to us as a community and show that you really care about our dignity, our lives and our economic vitality.” You can’t just put us in a few TV shows and then, when things get hard and when people are paying attention, stop greenlighting our projects,” Tobia said. If you want to stand with us, you need to stand with us. “Hollywood put us on a pedestal and then kind of abandoned us, frankly. ![]() ![]() The WGA’s Trans Takeover picket drew a crowd outside Netflix in Hollywood. ![]()
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