Abigail Garner
Mar 16th, 2007
Mar 16th, 2007
All My Trans Children
Catching up on Helen Boyd’s blog, I was reminded that her husband Betty participated in an episode of All My Children in which the transitioning character Zarf/Zoe attends a trans support group. Everyone but Zoe in that support group identifies as trans in real life, and Helen reports that they were not on script when they told their own stories.
A transgender support group on a soap opera. Let that sink in for a moment.
“Groundbreaking” is such an overused word in the LGBT community, but this time, it’s deserving.
To quote an extra on an episode of It’s All Relative: “I smell a GLAAD award.”
Speaking of GLAAD, they have a bunch of background information about this episode on their website.