Actress Jen Richards explains the problem with casting cis actors in trans roles

Now see, I’m not interested in SRS, but if something like that was available it would make life so much easier, especially for people like myself. Today, I’ve been more female, but tomorrow I mostly have to present as male. Transformation magic for the win! *Poof!*

I actually think most of your post here is good, but I have to correct that one. It would be easier if most of us figured out that we aren’t our assigned genders early in life, but it’s just not always that easy. (This is even more true for those of us who aren’t binary, be that cis or trans.) Sometimes we just go through many, many years of not feeling like you quite fit in some undefined way. Many people really don’t figure this out until fairly late in their lives. (Yeah, I speak from my own experiences in this case.)

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