{"id":1635,"date":"2015-02-08T01:00:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T07:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2015-02-07T14:51:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T20:51:52","slug":"new-transgender-sitcom-forthcoming-from-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1635","title":{"rendered":"New Transgender Sitcom Forthcoming From BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new comedy series with a trans actress as one of its romantic leads, named Boy Meets Girl, will air on BBC2 later this year. The new series is particularly notable in contrast with Amazon&#8217;s trans-focused series <em>Transparent<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/10\/08\/transparent-star-i-understand-frustration-with-male-actor-playing-trans-woman\/\">which has faced criticism for casting a cisgender actor in its leading trans role<\/a>. The series &#8220;revolves around the developing relationship between the pair?s characters Leo, 26, and Judy, 40,&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2015\/02\/02\/photo-first-look-at-bbcs-transgender-sitcom\/\">PinkNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BBC Commissioning Editor Kristian Smith said: ?Boy Meets Girl is a heart-warming romantic comedy that draws on the glorious differences that shape all of us.<\/p>\n<p>?It?s a brilliant thing to be able to support comedy that is not only funny, but can also promote affirming messages of humanity and acceptance.?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new comedy series with a trans actress as one of its romantic leads, named Boy Meets Girl, will air on BBC2 later this year. The new series is particularly notable in contrast with Amazon&#8217;s trans-focused series Transparent, which has faced criticism for casting a cisgender actor in its leading trans role. The series &#8220;revolves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}