Sign of the Times
Posted on 01/07/2020 2:27:27 PM PST by Ennis85
Josie Totah, a 18-year-old transgender actress, will be featured in the lead role of the upcoming "Saved by the Bell" reboot.
The reboot also casts original cast members Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkeley, who will reprise their roles as A.C. Slater and Jessie Spano.
What are the details?
The Hollywood Reporter notes that Totah will play the role of Lexi, who is a "beautiful, sharp-tongued cheerleader" who is the "most popular girl at Bayside High." Lexi is both "admired and feared by her fellow students," according to the report.
The outlet notes that Totah — who was born a male — will also serve as a producer on the show.
In 2018, Totah — a former Disney actress — came out as transgender, detailing her experience as a teen in Hollywood.
In an essay for Time, she wrote, "In the past, I've halfway corrected people by telling them I identify as LGBTQ. I wasn't ready to be more specific. I was afraid I wouldn't be accepted, that I would be embarrassed, that the fans who knew me from the time when I acted in a Disney show would be confused. But I realized over the past few years that hiding my true self is not healthy. I know now, more than ever, that I'm finally ready to take this step toward becoming myself. I'm ready to be free. So, listen up y'all: You can jump on or jump off. Either way this is where I'm heading."
"My pronouns are she, her and her," Totah added. "I identify as female, specifically as a transgender female. And my name is Josie Totah."
"This is not something that just happened. This is not a choice that I made," Totah explained. "When I was five, long before I understood what the word gender meant, I would always tell my mother that I wished I were a girl. Since I could speak in full sentences, I was like, 'Give me a dress!' I always knew on some level that I was female."
"God made me transgender," she added.
What else?
In September, NBCUniversal announced that the reboot would air on the network's new streaming platform, Peacock. Peacock is set to launch in April.
The best girl is a boy pretending to be a girl, after all.
Viva la difference!
I have seen it a few times. They have a caption that says it is educational. Well it isn’t.
Popularity is enhanced by a lewenski
I need to go to re-education Camp. This is a transgender; playing the part of a transgender????
Will he/she protest in years ahead, that he/she is being discriminated against in Hollywood, because of this transsexual status?
How many roles for trans gendered people are there realistically ever going to be?
Gah!
Guys are better than girls at everything. Including being a girl
<< “This is not something that just happened. This is not a choice that I made,” Totah explained >>
His decision to indulge his mental illness and declare himself a female is most certainly a choice.
What next?
Boy Meets World with a teen falling in love with and marrying a tranny?
Hahaha....how ironic....
Sick to infinity.
I had to Google to see for myself what this “best girl” looks like.
It looks like Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow reproduced. This show will quickly be cancelled.
I predict a cancellation in less than a full year..................
WUT? Oh crap, I forgot I don’t GAS! Or DILLIGAF?
Why are these people being treated like they invented the wheel?
Believe James Garner covered this fairly well in Victor/Victoria where a girl disguised as a boy disguised as a girl was the main theme.
Julie Andrews ‘job’ in the film
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Q: What do you call an 8 day long blow job?
A: Hanukkah Lewinski.
“God made me transgender”
HE did no such thing. He created man and he created woman. There was nothing about going back and forth.
most popular because it is permitted to use both bathrooms...
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