By Steven Herbert, City News Service | “Work It,” a comedy that has drawn criticism from two national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender advocacy organizations for its treatment of two unemployed men who dress as women to get jobs, premieres at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday on ABC.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the Human Rights Campaign placed a full-page ad in the entertainment trade publication Daily Variety Dec. 21 claiming that “by encouraging the audience to laugh at the characters’ attempts at womanhood, the show gives license to similar treatment of transgender women.”
Although the show’s lead characters are not transgender people, many viewers unfamiliar with the realities of being transgender will still make the connection, according to GLAAD.
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