jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agoTX school bans trans boy from playing "Oklahoma!" male lead, recasts with cisgender male studentwww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square199fedilinkarrow-up1766arrow-down155
arrow-up1711arrow-down1external-linkTX school bans trans boy from playing "Oklahoma!" male lead, recasts with cisgender male studentwww.salon.comjeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square199fedilink
minus-squaredope@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down25·edit-210 months agoI don’t get it. Not male and the lead calls for a male so you can’t play the lead. So we’re going with an actual male instead. Seems reasonable.
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down3·10 months agoEven if we engage in your transphobic rhetoric for a minute, that’s just not how theater works. People can be cast for different genders and have been for a loooong time
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down2·10 months agoDon’t be transphobic and I won’t call you transphobic. Deal?
minus-squareTenthrow@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoWow, I didn’t know Oklahoma had scenes with full nudity. Oh it doesn’t? Then what part of this requires that the actor be born with male genitals?
I don’t get it. Not male and the lead calls for a male so you can’t play the lead. So we’re going with an actual male instead. Seems reasonable.
Even if we engage in your transphobic rhetoric for a minute, that’s just not how theater works. People can be cast for different genders and have been for a loooong time
Don’t be rude.
Don’t be transphobic and I won’t call you transphobic. Deal?
Wow, I didn’t know Oklahoma had scenes with full nudity. Oh it doesn’t? Then what part of this requires that the actor be born with male genitals?