"It felt incredible that they'd left it out of the script because Sally had just gone 'Miranda's identity doesn't need to be a part of her storyline, she just is',"
"'We're allowing a world where everyone around her accepts and embraces it.'"
"'Sally's writing from Happy Valley to Gentleman Jack, all of those characters are so 3D and to have her write a trans character who's this 3D and has a really exciting journey, I felt so blessed that this was my first series regular role. I couldn't have asked for anything better,'"
Riot Women follows five middle-aged women in a West Yorkshire market town who form a punk-rock band for a local talent show. The ensemble cast includes Joanna Scanlan, Lorraine Ashbourne, Rosalie Craig, Tamsin Greig, Amelia Bullmore and Macy Seelochan as Miranda. Miranda is trans, but her identity is left out of the storyline as a plot point; the creator chose to present her as simply existing within an accepting world. Script lines that explicitly mentioned her trans-ness were removed. The series offers non-trauma-focused queer representation by portraying Miranda as a fully dimensional character whose identity is normalized.
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