slimeportal:

queerbydefault:

tw-evan:

emperor-greed:

tw-evan:

please don’t boycott “about ray”

trans men are nonexistent in the media anyway. a movie about a trans man getting low ratings is only going to show hollywood that nobody wants to watch anything about trans men– please please please don’t boycott it

Is there any reason people are boycotting it? You know one that doesn’t make me want to hit my head off a brick wall.

people want to boycott it because a cis girl is playing a trans man– considering there are ZERO professionally trained hollywood-ready trans man actors, and out of a cis girl and a cis man, a cis girl is the much better candidate for playing a pre-everything teenage trans boy; i think that’s an absolutely fine thing. everybody else seems to think it’s blatant transphobia, though. sigh.

Not to mention that even if there were professional “hollywood”-esque transmale actors, most if not all of them would be post-transition or would at the very least be uncomfortable playing a pre-transition transmale; Laverne Cox got her brother to play her pre-transition in OitNB. In terms of accuracy, and I hate to say this, but a cis girl would just visually make sense.

So people are getting up in arms about a girl playing a guy who identifies as being a girl?

this sounds suspiciously like the opening joke to NC’s Jupiter Ascending review

Edit: Got my terms confused

The thing is, having a trans person portraying a trans person would require them to go off hormones which can set them back in transition by years.