EdmontonSun.com – By Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood – You’ve heard of Trainspotting, now get ready for Transpotting.
Once relegated to what seemed like every other edition of The Jerry Springer Show, transvestites and transsexuals suddenly appear to be popping up all over the screen in record numbers.
Now that gay characters are no longer raising eyebrows in the aftermath of shows like Will & Grace and The L Word, trend-hungry Hollywood has been on the lookout for the next big thing and it might just be onto something.
While the independent film world led the gender-bending way with titles like 1999’s Boys Don’t Cry, in which Hilary Swank burst upon the scene playing a young woman who passes herself off as a man; and 2005’s Transamerica, with Felicity Huffman playing a pre-op male-to-female, scripted television has been much slower to embrace the, uh, transformation.