That’s an excellent point about the separate “best actor/best actress” awards. Say you have two actors up for similar rolls portraying trans women. One is a man, and the other a trans women. Do they compete for the same award? Is one eligible for best supporting actor, and the other best supporting actress? Are they both lumped into best supporting actor based on some arbitrary test, like they are athletes, with all the problems that has? Does it matter if the character’s status as a trans woman is a ‘surprise’, like in ‘the crying game?’
I don’t really pretend the answer to know the answer to any of these questions, other than “ick, no” to the one about gender testing as for athletes.
