Mark Ruffalo responds to the backlash over casting Matt Bomer in a trans role
When news broke that cisgender actor Matt Bomer would play a transgender sex worker in an upcoming film, many were outraged. Yet again, what could have been a career-making role for an unknown trans actress had gone to a household-adjacent cis name.
Others, like writer and actress Jen Richards, expressed concern that casting like this reinforces the idea that trans women are “really men,” a harmful misunderstanding that has the potential to cause violence against trans women.