The Awful (And The Amazing!) Trans Rep In Lost Girl

The producers said they didn’t mean it, but is ignorance enough to excuse blatant transphobia?

Lost Girl (Showcase); graphic by Stephenie

Lost Girl: a show that directly challenged (or directly ignored) patriarchal ideals and binary assumptions about gender and sexuality

Lost Girl is a Canadian supernatural drama television series that premiered on Showcase on September 12, 2010, and ran for five seasons. The series was created by Michelle Lovretta and produced by Jay Firestone and Prodigy Pictures Inc., with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund (Canada Media Fund), and in association with Shaw Media.

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The initial premise centers on the gorgeous and charismatic Bo, a supernatural being called a succubus who feeds on the energy of humans, sometimes with fatal results. Refusing to embrace her supernatural clan and its rigid hierarchy, Bo is a renegade who…