Hayley Cropper who was played by a female actress. I honestly blame Corrie a lot for making her the first face of a TIM - an actual woman. No wonder people were confused. If it has been Eddie Izzard in girl mode no one would have cared for that storyline.
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Lovely optics right there - white man talking down to a black woman. These misogynists are gleeful in their new rights to belittle and shout at women in power.
Hayley Cropper who was played by a female actress.
This was deliberate. As you say, had it been a bloke nobody would have been taken in for a moment. Not even Roy Cropper.
When TRAs then started to be more publicly obvious and people objected they were castigated and being made to feel that they were bullying Little Hayley Cropper and poking her with a stick to make her cry! What? You want to make Hayley USE THE GENTS TOILETS? But look at her - how helpless, how fragile, how vulnerable, how harmless she is. YOU BIGOT!!!
Ironically Julie Hesmondhalgh has since apologised for taking a role that should have gone to a TW* and said that she would never do that again etc etc etc - ignoring the fact that her perfidy in snatching that role from some meaty bloke was contributory to trans acceptance.
Without it the general population would never have thought that TW were shy little shrinking violets, more girl than man, who had had all of the surgery required to make them "female". Or at least, "not male".
*I'm sorry - has she never heard of "acting"? Do we only have gays playing gays, and straight people playing straight people now - that chucks more gay actors of both sexes under the bus than any of us could possibly count. And haven't a number of TW actors been complaining that they are being given female roles? That really will be the death of TV if we are expected to believe someone like (to use your example) Eddie Izzard is the hot older woman, or romantic female lead.
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