I’ve just watched the Dr Who reboot. Everyone in my household are long-time fans so we were looking forward to seeing David Tennant reprise the role.
I knew there was going to be a trans character, and thought well okay, maybe they’ll just be there as a character and their transness wont be commented on. But oh no, we had the full-on virtue signalling that had nothing to do with the plot. At one point, the doctor referred to an alien as ‘he’ and was pulled up by the TIM character with, “you’re assuming he as a pronoun?”
The Doctor replies, “true - sorry. Are you a he, a she or a they?”
The alien says, “my chosen pronoun is the definite article.”
The trans character saves the day of course and we had a spiel about becoming who they were meant to be blah blah. The mother (Catherine Tate) is shown as ultra protective when some kids ‘misgender’ the trans ‘daughter’. Honestly, the way it detracted from the story put us all off. They’ve had gay characters, disabled characters etc many times before and they are just there as characters with lives. If the whole series is going to be like this, think I’ll lose the will…