A is a Girl?! Fan Outrage On Pretty Little Liars Transgender Reveal

A is a Girl?! Fan Outrage On Pretty Little Liars Transgender RevealWho saw Pretty Little Liars this week? I did (Been a fan of the show since day 1)!  This week episode reveals Charles DiLaurentis as Cece (Alison’s best pal and Jason’s ex girlfriend)! How twisted is that? And before we knew it they fast forwarded to five years later? What in the freaking world is going on? I must say; i never saw this coming!

Anyways fans have called out the show for being transphobic and pretty pissed about the big reveal,Planettransgender writes;

  On Wednesday the identity of the big villain of the show was revealed.  A was in fact Charlotte ‘CeCe’ DiLaurentis, and that in the past Charlotte was Charles.  Yep, the show has revealed not only who the villain is, but they’ve gone with the old villain is transgender trope.  Well done ABC, you’ve managed to stoop incredibly low on this one.

Now, the shows producers and writers have come out as saying that the character of CeCe comes from a ‘crazy’ family, and that all of her actions and her past have nothing to do with being transgender, simply from her upbringing and the way her family is.

I’m sorry, but that excuse just isn’t good enough.  It doesn’t matter what the characters past is, how ‘crazy’ her family is or the things they have done.  People are not going to see this reveal as being ‘because of her crazy family’, they’ll be seeing it as the ‘evil tranny’ trope.
 If the writers and producers wanted a trans character, why make her the villain?  In a world where the number of trans women killed is increasing each year do you really want to promote the idea that trans women are not to be trusted, that we’re out to hurt people for our own psychotic ends?

The shows writers managed, in one fell swoop, created a character that captures every negative stereotype in one, that reinforces all of the right wing anti-lgbt+ propaganda and actively hurts the trans community.

Trans health care is appalling, the odds of a trans person finding a job or housing are incredibly low, and we’re being killed on average every 29 hours.  Our life expectancy is less than 40.  In a world like that do you really think portrayals like this help in any way?

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