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Trans People Would Tip-Toe Away From That ‘Chat’
I don’t have access to watch ‘Tip Toe’ yet, but maybe you do
The new TV drama “Tip Toe,” Scott Bryan tells us in the Guardian today, is about how LGBTQ people may feel that, in today’s political climate, we can’t just “walk into a room and go: ‘Ta-da!’” Instead, we start to “tip toe.”
More specifically, the show is about how “political rhetoric, toxic online bullying and misinformation can add jet fuel to a feud between neighbours.”
Created by Russell T Davies and set on Manchester’s Canal Street, this five-episode series will begin Sunday night (May 31) on the UK’s Channel 4.
“Davies says he has never written so furiously in his life,” Bryan tells us, and his “central question” is that “if inclusion and representation is now a given, what if other people don’t like what they see?”
The show features a bar called Spit & Polish, where most workers are young and queer. At least one is trans. (Davies “sought advice from the writer Juno Dawson, with whom he worked on Doctor Who, about how to portray the trans characters.”) Yet the owner of the bar also has a friend who is “gender-critical — believing that biological sex cannot be changed from birth,” as the Guardian article puts it.
