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| Lavern Cox |
As the the year comes to a close it seems everyone has a year in review.
In our transgendered world 2011 was a very active year with several positive milestones.
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Laverne Cox" recently wrote about transgender acting milestones in the
"Huffington Post".
From "Chaz Bono" and "Harmony Santana" to her own acting career, she covers many transgendered acting successes in 2011 and the hopes for more in the future.
Here's a short look at the past year.
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| Yasmin Lee |
In an article about transgender performers in the December 8-14, 2011 issue of
Backstage,
Simi Horwitz writes, "Casting director Sig De Miguel ... looks forward
to the time when a character's transgender status is incidental to the
script and an actor's trans identity is irrelevant to casting. 'You may
be born male, but you're a woman now,' De Miguel says." De Miguel
represents a growing number of industry professionals who are open to
casting trans actors in roles that aren't necessarily written as trans.
He cast three of the films in which I acted in 2011. He also cast
Harmony Santana in
Gun Hill Road. In
36 Saints, one
of those films, I play the effusive party promoter Genesius. Nowhere in
the script does it say that she is transgender, nor is it inauthentic
to the story that she is.
The highest profile fictional transgender film character of 2011 was the controversial role of Kimmy in the blockbuster
The Hangover 2.
The role was played by transsexual adult film actress Yasmin Lee. I
had the pleasure of briefly meeting Yasmin a few years ago. She seemed
very sweet. I hope this high-profile role has opened other doors for
Lee.
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