An earlier post about a peeping Tom posing as a CD to video women reminded me of how many times I've been embarrassed by real life or fictional representations of transgendered people over the years. You know, those grainy videos of Milton Berle, John Cleese and Eric Idle 'drag racing', corporal Klinger, etc., etc. (about the only positive TG person I remember was Cpt. Whatever's girlfriend from Hill Street Blues.
It seems that whether real or fictional, my first reaction was "someone may recognize me in them" and the other fear was that 'I'd end up like them'.
Oddly enough, to some extent, the latter proved true...but now I'm ok with it.
So, for you folks, has the representation of transgendered ever bothered you by the unflattering portrayals or by the fear that it revealed something about you...or some other way?