I was recently thinking of an old AdultSwim show, Eagleheart. Most of the time the show didn't have anything to do with trans stuff; in fact the show didn't have any trans stuff whatsoever, except that in one episode a major character was played by a trans actor.
I don't know why I was thinking about it recently, the actor passes quite well (I mean, she still looks weird, but she looks like a weird man with some feminine traits, not a weird woman). She doesn't seem to get into insane trans bullshit, being open about her transition and seems to just want to live like a normal human being actor. Fine.
But I was just thinking of a scene from the one episode she was in, she's the leader of an underground community of munchkin-like shoeshines. At one point the main character and his sidekick (a woman who, in this scene, is disguised as a male shoeshine) come into the shoeshines' lair.
The sidekick reveals herself by saying, "I'm not a shine boy [takes of hat and reveals hair] I'm a lady". The shoeshines at this point all say, "Lady!" and unzip their pants at which point the main character tells them to back off.
And then the trans actor says, "Just kidding, mister, shine boys don't have family parts."
When I first watched the episode I didn't realize that the actor was a TiF, but I wonder whether she complained at all about that scene, it seems almost too on-the-nose as commentary on TiFs. I wonder if the writers/directors even knew she was a she or if maybe she helped add that part.
