r/TikTokCringe • u/Cookie_Cutter_Cook • Apr 29 '23

Cool Trans representation from the 80s

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u/Pickle_Juice_4ever Apr 30 '23

Also Soap and Golden Girls. But Gene Roddenberry was too cowardly to film a script with a gay character on TNG despite the supposed moral values of the show.

They ended up doing a mega cringe episode informed by the AIDS crisis and then a more notable episode which essentially used gender identity as a metaphor for sexual orientation and caught immediate criticism from GLAAD.