Transgender sitcom to tackle discrimination with humour

by Ivano Abbadessa - 2013.03.27

Sü is the leading character in The Switch, a new – in fact the first – comedy series focusing on the lives of transgender people. Sü is a young woman who lives a normal life. She has a good job as a software manager and a nice apartment in her city. But when she decides to come out, declaring her transsexuality, her world collapses all at once. On losing her job, she's forced to begin again from scratch. This is the premise of the sitcom, produced in Canada by Trembling Void Studios. Six episodes have been filmed and they will be broadcast on the Internet next Autumn. The transsexual roles will be played by transgender actors. According to the directors, humour can be a great way of sensitizing an international audience to the difficulties and discrimination that people face every day as a result of their sexual orientation.

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