Transgender Comedy Series Picked Up By Amazon

Transgender comedy series picked up by Amazon to air on their streaming service for 10 episodes.

Transparent is a family comedy about a transgender woman who transitions later in life.

Amazon has picked up a transgender comedy series called Transparent. The programme will air on their streaming service for a first season of 10 episodes. The show is about a transgender woman (Jeffrey Tambor) who transition later in life and has to come out to her grown up children.

Transparent comes from Jill Solloway, who has worked on critical hits, Six Feet Under and The United States of Tara.

Solloway acknowledges that using a cisgender man to portray a trans woman leaves the show open to criticism,

But I feel like it’s a bit of a safe space for the reality that a lot of older trans women don’t necessarily medically transition. I think there’s a story we can tell here. … For Maura’s journey and where she’s going to go, particularly a her age — whether or not she’s going to medically transition is something we can play with.”

She insists that the transgender community was an integral part of the production of the show.

“We’ve had trans people involved in the process all the way through. I’m so inspired by taking all of the aspects of the conversation and being able to treat them with the fullness of having a series set around these questions.”

Watch a clip of transgender comedy, Transparent.

Source: Advocate

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