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Transgender Actors Don’t Need Experience To Land Roles

Kaitlan Collins Contributor
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Transgender actors don’t need experience to land roles. They simply need to be transgender.

That’s what a new report from Reuters is claiming, because it says directors don’t look towards traditional talent agencies when they need to cast someone who is transgender. Instead, they turn towards LGBT centers like GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation.

The report implies that actors are sought out not because of their experience but because of their lifestyle.

“As a transgender man myself, I see a lot of show runners coming to me and asking about any transgender actors I know of,” said Nick Adams, a director of a group that “promotes lesbian, gay and transgender issues in the media.”

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“That’s how it’s been, a loose network of transgender people who have these databases of friends and acquaintances.”

But Adams blames this on the system.

“The casting system is just not set up to search for them.”