blackmagicalgirlmisandry:

wordstomyowninsanity:

condemnedtorocknroll:

ghostofcommunism:

polygrrrl:

jesus fucking christ

Fuck transmisogynistic casting practices that lead to cis men playing trans women.

I rolled my eyes so hard my lens fell out. no joke.

*sigh* I understand how this can be upsetting, but here’s the thing. This movie is about the first trans person to undergo reassignment surgery. And at first I, too, was upset they didn’t get a trans actor. And Redmayne even STATES IN AN INTERVIEW THAT THERE ARE A BUNCH OF TRANS FEMALE ACTRESSES HE THINKS WOULD NAIL THE PART, but he believes the reason he was cast is because this film takes place in a time before hormones were a thing that the trans community could use, and those casting did not want to risk trans females going off hormones just for the shoot.

Breathe, guys.

wow y’all will do all kinds of of backflips to justify transmisogyny. Lili Elbe literally went on hormones and got SRS, so why can’t a trans woman play her?

you don’t think that a trans girl can play another girl pre-HRT? There aren’t any pre-HRT trans women that they could have scouted for this role? In Gun Hill Road, Harmony Santana a TRANS WOMAN plays a trans character who never even went on hormones. If that can work in one film why can’t that work in this one?

These are all excuses made to avoid casting trans women in trans women roles in the media. This isn’t just “upsetting” this is a form of violence, trans women are being shut out of roles in film, are shut out from making money in the industry, and aren’t even allowed to represent their own history. Its because this film is about a transgender pioneer that this is such an issue, fellow cis people need to sit back and let trans women speak on this issue and stop acting like we know everything.