The American-made soap opera "All My Children", which airs through the television network channel ABC, is going to introduce a pre-op., Male-to-Female Transgender person on its November 30th (today's) episode. The character, played by actor Jeffrey Carlson, will be called Zarf, and will be introduced with a bang by sharing a kiss with the show's resident Lesbian character, Bianca. I think that having another Transgender character joining the small group of them that already exists (like the characters that were in CBS' old show "The Education of Max Bickford", the short-lived ABC show "The City", and of course, the Female-to-Male character on Showtime's "The L Word") would be a good thing. My only concern is that this new character on "All My Children" is going to end up with the same storyline as most other Transgender women in television and movies: a dirty, homeless, constantly-struggling prostitute who ends up getting murdered and dumped somewhere when one of her tricks discovers she's anatomically male. I don't think that ABC's audience would be very receptive of a show with a prostitute character, though, so maybe this new character will spark a change for mainstream television. It would be really awesome for Transgender people to finally be taken seriously by the television industry.
Linkage:
- Jeffrey Carlson http://www.jeffrey-carlson.com/index2.html
- Daniela Sea, the actor who plays the Transgender character, Max/Moira, on Showtime's "The L Word", http://www.l-word.com/cast/cast_daniela.php
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