I have never seen a trans woman on stage play a mother or a love interest...Why don't we come to mind for that?
We just want to have the chance to audition, to prove we are just as good as our cis counterparts. Things have drastically changed since I began my career in the 90s, but the industry is reluctant to take a chance on us.
The industry has largely now acknowledged this isn't acceptable. Yet for many, this is where the conversation has become stuck. The formalities have been ticked off, like respecting pronouns, but transphobia still comes out in casting processes.
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