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Old 22-07-2016, 15:32
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Anyone else think a transvestite who's chosen not to have the operation but still inhabit both male and female personas depending on the situation would be a good addition to the show. Be an opportunity to explore the characters double life as well as their own personal demons
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:33
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I'd like Roy to return to his Norman Bates persona and start dressing up as Hayley.
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:35
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Anyone else think a transvestite who's chosen not to have the operation but still inhabit both male and female personas depending on the situation would be a good addition to the show. Be an opportunity to explore the characters double life as well as their own personal demons
Don't you mean transgender. Transgender, means somebody who identifies differently from their out ward gender.

A transvestite is someone who like the other genders clothes.

But yes. In fact they've already done it. It was Haley cropper who had me starting to question my own gender....
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:38
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Would they need to have demons (about transvestism anyway)?

You get people like Grayson Perry and Eddie Izzard who seem quite comfortable with how they are. Be nice to see somebody who was ok with themselves even if other characters would inevitably have issues.
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:49
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I'd like Roy to return to his Norman Bates persona and start dressing up as Hayley.
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:52
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Don't you mean transgender. Transgender, means somebody who identifies differently from their out ward gender.

A transvestite is someone who like the other genders clothes.

But yes. In fact they've already done it. It was Haley cropper who had me starting to question my own gender....
Well there's a blurred line - I was thinking the character could sit on that line and be older so they were more likely to struggle with it.
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:56
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Anyone else think a transvestite who's chosen not to have the operation but still inhabit both male and female personas depending on the situation would be a good addition to the show. Be an opportunity to explore the characters double life as well as their own personal demons
Audrey has already been out with one in recent years. Remember Marc (Marcia) Selby back in 2011.

How soon forgotten clearly. I liked that character too.
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Old 22-07-2016, 15:57
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Audrey has already been out with one in recent years. Remember Marc Selby back in 2011.

How soon forgotten clearly. I liked that character too.
I agree. They should bring him back.
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Old 22-07-2016, 16:10
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Audrey has already been out with one in recent years. Remember Marc (Marcia) Selby back in 2011.

How soon forgotten clearly. I liked that character too.
I was about to say the same thing. Perhaps they could bring Marc/Marcia back.
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Old 22-07-2016, 22:24
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Well there's a blurred line - I was thinking the character could sit on that line and be older so they were more likely to struggle with it.
Is there? I don't think I've ever seen that suggested anywhere else. Do you have any form of confirmation of that?
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Old 22-07-2016, 22:33
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I think a transgender teenager might be a good storyline. They've already done the adult perspective with Hayley and showed some of her struggles, but if they are going to do a topical storyline, I could see showing a teenager struggling with their gender to be a helpful storyline to a lot of young people.
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Old 22-07-2016, 22:38
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Is there? I don't think I've ever seen that suggested anywhere else. Do you have any form of confirmation of that?
Well I have personal experience. I know several people who have male and female personas and whilst they admire and desire certain aspects of their opposite persona and do to an extent want to live as the women still prefer having their biological sex in certain environments even if it isn't there favourite.
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Old 22-07-2016, 23:24
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What they won't do and funny enough no one mentions it, is to bring in an outwardly racist or homophobic character. I'm not saying I'd like it to happen, but in the real world these people are about whether it be Manchester or London....
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Old 22-07-2016, 23:42
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What they won't do and funny enough no one mentions it, is to bring in an outwardly racist or homophobic character. I'm not saying I'd like it to happen, but in the real world these people are about whether it be Manchester or London....
Whilst most sane people would appreciate it as acting there would be some saddos that would send death threats and abuse to the actors and maybe their families. Should be a reasonable enough idea in principle to have these characters but in practice the bad publicity and backlashes could be prohibitive.
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Old 23-07-2016, 10:02
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Well I have personal experience. I know several people who have male and female personas and whilst they admire and desire certain aspects of their opposite persona and do to an extent want to live as the women still prefer having their biological sex in certain environments even if it isn't there favourite.
Fair enough, but I still think there's a distinction between transvestite and transgender, and an individual would tend to be one or the other, with no doubts on the matter. Or neither, of course.

Would a person who'd prefer to be the opposite sex, but did nothing about effecting the change, be classed as 'transgender'?

Just my opinion, though, and I accept I could be wrong.
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Old 23-07-2016, 10:38
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Well there's a blurred line - I was thinking the character could sit on that line and be older so they were more likely to struggle with it.
No there isn't.
Transvestite should not be confused with transgender or transsexual
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/transvestite
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Old 23-07-2016, 10:44
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Anyone else think a transvestite who's chosen not to have the operation but still inhabit both male and female personas depending on the situation would be a good addition to the show. Be an opportunity to explore the characters double life as well as their own personal demons
What an utterly offensive, ill-informed load of old cobblers.

Firstly, a transvestite has no desire to be a member of the opposite sex, just to dress like them. As a trans myself your ignorant post appalls me. Secondly, to call transvestites people who lead double lives is possibly even more offensive.
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Old 23-07-2016, 11:18
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What an utterly offensive, ill-informed load of old cobblers.

Firstly, a transvestite has no desire to be a member of the opposite sex, just to dress like them. As a trans myself your ignorant post appalls me. Secondly, to call transvestites people who lead double lives is possibly even more offensive.
Oh shit. I wrote that offhand and now realise how poorly phrased it was. Having done some more research I had got the wrong impression (from people around me transgender meant only a transexual who hadn't yet taken the op, rather than anyone who identified as the opposite sex or more crucially neither sex). Regarding the transvestives leading double lives, I didn't mean all do. I'm thinking of a very specific situation in which I know that to be something some trans people do (going to extreme lengths to hide it from certain people whilst being more comfortable about in other people) - the reason I commented about it as because obviously a character like that has far greater dramatic potential. I certainly didn't set out to offend anyone by what I posted, and I apologise for doing so. With this in mind the character I'm thinking of would clearly be non-binary or transgender.

Also the double life stuff isn't a purely trans issue. Many people with desires that may be considered unusual by other people do still hide them (something like 70% of gay men hide their sexuality from colleagues)
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Old 23-07-2016, 15:49
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Have you heard the expression : "When you're in a hole, stop digging"?
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