ABC's newest sitcom could be leveraged as a way to break the ice, and use the levity to initiate conversation about transgender people and the challenges they face every day.
Robert Alberdingk Thijm | Posted 03.10.2012
Work It has stirred up much controversy in the U.S. How different was the response in the Netherlands to Ollie Hartmoed's Palace of Draperies, a show I wrote and in which a transgender character plays an important part?
Erica Keppler | Posted 02.21.2012
ABC could draw these two main characters into the transgender community, show the transgender experience through their eyes, include transgender characters played by genuine transgender actors, and make the show the transgender equivalent of Will & Grace.
Robyn Carolyn Montague | Posted 02.20.2012
The use of the image of two men in women's clothing at a urinal -- obviously in a men's public restroom -- will only further hate groups' contention that trans-identified women should not be allowed in women's public restrooms.
Emerson Whitney | Posted 02.06.2012
The argument that there's nothing offensive about Work It is circulating the Internet, mostly with reference to the show's "tame" comedy predecessors (e.g., Mrs. Doubtfire). So what's the difference?
Chris Tina Bruce | Posted 03.16.2012