And let's not even get into panto and the role swapping there!!! 😉
I once saw an opera ( can't remember which ) and the lead character was intended to sung be a Tenor Castrato and is usually sung now by a Counter Tenor. The Counter tenor backed out at the last minute so his role was sung by a woman. The character dressed as a woman . A woman, pretending to be a man who was dressed as a woman. No confusion there.
I think it's changing for the younger generations. My daughter went to a multiracial school. Her meeja studies teacher was American. It took him a while to realise that he needed to explain the issues connected with interracial marriage in America. It had not yet become an issue in their own relationships. I hope that this attitude continued once they had left school.
I remember once me and a boy in my class at school got detention from our R.E. teacher. Me for asking why Jesus was always shown as being blond in films, art etc if he was from the Middle East, and him for saying it didn't matter because he was a fictional character.
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I watched an episode of an American legal drama addressing this issue. One of the female swimmers in the team was ousted for a transgender female, and she was suing on that basis. The lawyers happened to find another female within the team that had higher than usual testoterone levels (due to some medical condition that made her intersex, I think) and ousted her instead so that their client could compete. So both the ousted female and the transgender female got to compete, the but "real female" did not.
Indeed an legal drama is not real life but will have been informed, to some degree, on the actual medical/legal facts of the issues. I don't know if testosterone levels (or any other measured factor) is considered an official criteria for deciding who gets to compete in Olympics or any other sporting event.
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The Counter tenor backed out at the last minute so his role was sung by a woman. The character dressed as a woman .
A woman, pretending to be a man who was dressed as a woman. No confusion there.
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What on earth are/is meeja studies?