Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[kaleidoscopium]

So if this squid game actor comes out and says he is trans… this whole issue goes away and these people are now bigots, right? For forcing “her” to come out?

That could be a *very* good question to put into people's heads to be fair. We don't all pursue bottom surgery for anyone other than *ourselves*. I know I didn't. I couldn't go on living in my old body. It had nothing to do with whether or not random people in society would misgender me.

If this is a jumping off point for a good discussion about all of this, that's at least a silver lining, but I'd really hope people listen to the reasons why this stuff upsets living breathing trans people over wanting to defend a TV show they like. Trust us, we watch stuff that has problematic representations of trans people in all the time. We may like those things *despite* that. We wouldn't really have much to watch if we didn't.

But the problematic aspects remain, and we're still dealing with a character that *may* indeed be surprisingly well written coming from a cis man, but that still falls short in some key ways. Casting being one of them.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/park-sunghoon-a-cis-man-is-playing-the-role-of-a-trans-woman-in-squid-games-s2.1052565/page-5#post-133657566

We’ve all seen the video, you have been on HRT for a year and nothing changed except your hair grew longer. Chill it with this “we don’t all do this! I didn’t do this!” type shit