People playing genders they’re not assigned at birth? In theater?!?
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There is a slight difference when we’re talking about trans people.
I’d wager they would allow a man to play a woman’s role and vice versa. I think this is purely the anti-trans agenda taking hold.
Always comes down to that why care if the person is trans it’s like those laws that forbid trans people from hrt all bullshit
Fucking outrageous thankfully there’s no traditional Christmas theatre shows that involve drag coming up
Rock Hudson has entered the room
Rock Hard Hudson
This happened in Sherman TX, a city most famous for the Lynching of George Hughes and subsequent riot in 1930, commonly known as the Sherman Riot.
I was tempted to say, “New century, new target of bigotry,” but who am I kidding? They never gave up the old target of bigotry, either.
Some of the very first people that the Brownshirts went after was transpeople, even completely destroying an institute that was studying gender in the 30’s.
It’s not like the people involved in that lynching felt bad about it or regretted it. And then they passed that hate to their children who passed it on to their own children. Those people were the grandparents and great-grandparents of these kids. Some of them are still alive and still preaching their hate to the kid. Some of them were alive long enough to do it before they died.
I’m happy to say that after a whole bunch of people showed up at the school board meeting to speak on Max’s behalf the school board fully reinstated the original play and it’s actors including Max and issued a formal apology. Special thanks to Grayson Pride for leading the effort. https://www.kxii.com/2023/11/14/sherman-isd-board-trustees-votes-reinstate-original-cast-version-oklahoma/
Nice! If you didn’t already, you should make a post about it
Thank you, I’ll check and see if anyone has. I am diligently learning Lemmy.
Thanks for the update!
No problem!
Just want to point out that this statement makes it very clear that the original decision was reactionary discrimination against a minority in the first place.
Following the closed meeting, a board member, Wendy Vellotti, put forward the motion to reinstate the original version and cast of the production as it was before the gender rule was created.
Edit: The school board is now launching an investigation into the actions of the superintendent.
https://www.kxii.com/2023/11/14/sherman-isd-board-trustees-discuss-superintendent-position/
They need to investigate him. There are images circulating of him harassing parents who spoke ill of him about the situation. Another board member was shown to be protesting the local pride problem that was held, yelling at children and taunting them.
Because Max identifies as a transgender male, he could no longer be cast as the male lead.
I feel like the easy solution is to identify as a cis male…
It is concerning (but unsurprising) how obsessed conservatives are with childrens genitals.
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You can’t choose to identify as the cis version of your opposite sex.
That’s literally why we have the term cis, to differentiate from those who keep their assigned gender from those who do not.
Maybe I don’t know what a transgendered male is, but I thought it was someone who was born female then transitioned to male.
That would mean that identifying as a cis male does not make sense because cis is for people who keep their assigned gender at birth.
It’s called a joke, bud.
… holy crap they were being sarcastic…
I appreciate y’all on Lemmy. I almost went along with the Reddit programming of ruining jokes with /s but decided to test it.
It’s needed sometimes, but definitely not here.
damn, i feel really bad for the kid
I hate conservative so much. This is a non issue. If they are the best for the part let them play the part.
This is the shit where they go, “Why not let the best person get the part?” And then when they aren’t chosen, they start losing their shit.
You’d think they would ban Oklahoma! in Texas entirely for daring to be about a state other than Texas.
As a reluctant Texan, this is the comment I came here to make.
This is absolutely against theatre traditions.
I was an angsty theatre kid. I would conspire to ruin every and any play for the remainder of my time at that school.
I literally did a monologue in drag and the school was fine with it. And this was the 90s. Things have gone backward, amazingly enough.
I went to school in West Texas (bigotry Central). In elementary school in the mid-80s, it was tradition that the 6th grade class always put on a performance of ‘Guitarzan’ for the annual talent show, and EVERY year it was tradition that Jane was played by a male student.
The main difference of course is that it was played as humorous. A joke with a ridiculous coconut bra.
So it’s not that Texans have a problem with cross-dressing itself, but with taking seriously anyone who isn’t ashamed of it.
Which to me seems to make it even worse. I hate this state.
The licensing organization should pull their approval.
They should play one of the female lead characters, but as male.
They do know that acting is pretending to be someone other than yourself, right?
If Jared Leto (🤮) can win an Oscar for portraying a trans woman despite not being trans, then there is absolutely no reason that a trans boy can’t play the male lead of a school play. It’s acting.
This is Texas we’re talking about. You’re attempting to apply logic where there is none.
Texas is the only state which doesn’t have consistent power. Like, something no other state has a problem with.
Are you talking about Dallas buyers club or something else? I’m neither hip nor with it.
Yep, that’s the one.
transphobia and an adult abusing his position of power to hurt a kid, two berserk buttons in one headline
This is going to help with the School Shootings and Child Poverty and Pastors Raping Children!
I was sipping my coffee and looking out the window listening to the song birds, and then I worried about a trans kid in a school play, now I don’t have to worry thanks for taking care of that. What is next…men dressing up as women to play in Shakespearian plays??
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