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He made sure to play Maura as more than a caricature.īut on some level, there’s an element of falsehood to all performances that aren’t influenced by actual life experience.

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He consulted with creator Jill Soloway (who based the series on their own experiences with their own trans parent). I also genuinely think Tambor’s work on the show was terrific.

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On the one hand, something as intimate as Transparent might have never gotten on the air without a well-known TV actor in the lead role, and I appreciate that the series helped create a general awareness of trans issues within a greater segment of the population than would typically know about them. Still others thought it was good but could never overcome its original sin - casting a cisgender actor like Tambor in the role of a trans woman. AmazonĮven before the accusations of Jeffrey Tambor’s harassment of two trans actresses on the Transparent set tanked his previously solid standing among critics and the general public (he’d won two Emmys for playing Maura), Transparent had a fraught reputation within trans circles. Transparent’s reception within trans circles hasn’t always been positive The Pfefferman siblings spent a lot of this series making incredulous faces. I’m not a different person, except I kind of am.

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It found me at a time in my life when I needed it as something to cling to, and now, as it leaves me - in the form of a two-hour musical movie finale that is truly unlike anything else in TV history - I’ve realized that I have moved beyond it just a little bit.

I’m not sure it’s “about” me, all evidence to the contrary. I rarely want to discuss it beyond a cursory, “Yeah, Transparent is pretty good.” The expectation, I guess, is that I will have special insight into the show. But, inevitably, when people find out I am a trans woman and a TV critic, they ask me about the show. I love the first two seasons of Transparent, and I have complaints about seasons three and four. But still, I knew, before she said anything. You might not remember this, but Transparent’s pilot (which was released in early 2014, several months before the rest of season one) keeps Maura’s trans identity from the audience for roughly half of the episode. I believe my inner monologue was, “Oh fuck oh shit oh fuck oh shit.” The only way I expressed this feeling outwardly was to take my wife’s hand and squeeze it a little more tightly. The way her hands trembled as she began to talk, the way she struggled to speak over her kids, the way she finally resigned herself to “not tonight” - it felt a little like I was seeing into my own future. The kids continued to refer to her as “Dad,” and Maura was in so-called “guy mode,” the armor that trans women early in transition wear for uncomfortable situations.

Maura, the trans parent of the title, had gathered her children to come out to them. I still remember the way I felt the first time I watched the Transparent pilot.

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