ScottTurnerSchofield

Wow, that is a great question.

It's definitely a dream of mine to be a transgender person playing a cisgender role. But this incredible historical moment to be able to play a role that is being so deftly crafted, so correctly presented, is something that I never would have dreamed for myself, but that I am so, SO very proud & excited to play.

And I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. I think I can actually play both.

I'm happy to say that i wasn't involved at all! I didn't have to do anything. I didn't have to teach ANYBODY. They did what really good allies do - they learned it for themselves, they ran it through GLAAD to make sure they are speaking the truth correctly, and here we are!

Welcome to my life before I was 20 years old! I looked in the mirror and saw a man, and nobody would ever believe me. And I'm so glad they do now.

Okay, that's a wonderful question.

So it depends on if you mean when did I realize I was transgender as our society labels it, or when did I know that who I authentically am was different than what other people saw.

So I knew that what I authentically was was different than what people saw at a very young age - I was 3 years old. And that is something I carried with me for my whole life, and tried to figure out, until age 20, when I met a person who identified themselves as a transgender man. And that was the very first time that i knew that someone could be a transgender man, or that a person could change their lives, change their bodies, change the world to see THEM as they truly are.

It was a very long time of having no idea what I was. As problematic as labels can be, they do give us something to hold onto, so we can move forward.

That's an interesting question.

I'm not sure that anybody is being left out of the trans movement, because the trans movement is about inclusion? I feel, however, that we still have some work to do to not dismiss, because as transmen we come to being men from a different perspective. We are not men who have experienced male privilege throughout our entire lives, even if we may experience it once we transition. We have a deeper respect & empathy for women and people who experience sexism, and i do feel right now that the common line on transmen is that we transition and become chauvinists, when in fact, I have a lot of lived experience that this is not true.

So every movement has to work out its issues. And the transgender movement is no different. And I hope to see the transgender movement become increasingly more inclusive of every BODY and every experience moving forward.