I think I've soiled myself

Don't say that's just for white boys

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The man. The tits. The dress.

Transgender actor Hunter Schafer has said he no longer wants to play transgender roles.

But if actors, particularly white males, are only allowed to play characters of their own sociopolitical demography, how can Schafer expect to be cast as anything other than a white transgender [cough] woman?

Unless he's playing the LGBTQIABC+FLAPFLAPFLAP privilege card that's unavailable to his straight-down-the-line, vanilla counterparts, that is.

I doubt David Walliams would get away with The Boy in the Dress current day.

It takes more than boy-in-a-dress Vogue photoshoots and fawning op-eds to make a real star. Poor Hunter didn't even rate a mention among his Euphoria alumni as Christine Rowland assesses the resurgence of the film star:

many others emerged from television to serious acting careers, with HBO's teen drama Euphoria boasting a pretty remarkable trio of alumni: Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney.

Christina Newland, Glen Powell to Zendaya: Are genuine movie stars being born again?, BBC Culture

Yet not Hunter Shafer. I guess that even if a man with tits has them, he doesn't necessarily have it.