The drama of being transgender

Minnesota.PublicRadio.org – by Marianne Combs, Minnesota Public Radio

Local theater companies are increasingly staging plays revolving around transgender characters. In mainstream media people who feel they were born into a body of the wrong gender are often the subject of derision and exploitation. But on Twin Cities stages, they’re more likely to be portrayed as… people.

Minneapolis, Minn. – In Looking For Normal, currently on stage at the Minneapolis Theater Garage, Roy and Irma have been happily married for 25 years. Until Roy tries to explain to Irma that he knows inside he’s a woman.