However, Coon noted "the season was written before the election," and "considering the way the Trump administration has weaponized the cultural war against transgender people even more since then, when the time came to cut the episode down, Mike felt that the scene was so small and the topic so big that it wasn't the right way to engage in that conversation." Referencing an essay by Casey Plett, critic Harron Walker said that the film is an example of "fiction that utilizes transness as a metaphor to help cis people learn something new about themselves," pointing to a scene where the title character's cis lawyer and doctor argue about her transition as another example of "two cis people debating the ethics of transness without any trans people present." Instead of understanding the speech to be about the principles of Buddhism and the "never-ending carousel of lust and suffering," as Rockwell's character's described it, TERFs thought White included the scene to "expose" autogynephilia as the root cause of a trans woman's identity.
Author: Mey Rude
Published at: 2025-04-01 22:21:41
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