TX school bans trans boy from playing "Oklahoma!" male lead, recasts with cisgender male student
Max Hightower, 17, had won the coveted role of Curly, but his school enacted a new anti-trans policy for this play
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People playing genders they're not assigned at birth? In theater?!?
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Shakespeare never would have done this!
My first thought was "wait until they hear about Shakespeare". Literally every role filled by men, sometimes with the script explicitly calling for a man to play a female in full attire.
I'd also hate to see what policies they'll enact for their chorale program when performing historical hymns, where soprano parts specifically called for a male eunuch (castrato) to sing since females were not allowed to attend church services including choirs.
In my younger years I would have been absolutely vilified by these people. I'm probably vilified now, but I would've been then too. In all seriousness though, I cannot believe how far backwards we've gone in all this. I recognize that these thoughts and feelings have existed since before I was a kid but at least back then people seemed to have the decency to mind their own.
But to attack theatre of all things with this gender bullshit is attacking theatre itself. Crossdressing in theatre has existed for as long as theatre has existed. Cross-singing has existed for as long as singing has existed. If they're not teaching that stuff in their performing arts programs, they are denying young adults a quality education of the performing arts.
they are denying young adults a quality education
I think you're on to something there.
Trying to remember. Was it Taming of the Shrew where he mind fucks the audience with a male actor playing a male servant pretending to be a guy's wife in drag?
I wonder who the first woman to play Juliet was, and if Shakespeare ever met her.
We banned ShakesSpear and hung him/her in effigy
—Texas, probably
There is a slight difference when we're talking about trans people.
I'd wager they would allow a man to play a woman's role and vice versa. I think this is purely the anti-trans agenda taking hold.
Gotta say, their obsession with children’s genitalia really weirds me out.
Always comes down to that why care if the person is trans it's like those laws that forbid trans people from hrt all bullshit
Shakespeare would be mortified!
Fucking outrageous thankfully there's no traditional Christmas theatre shows that involve drag coming up
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