The second season of the popular Netflix series “Squid Game” has some LGBT activists up in arms because a “cis man” was cast to play the part of a transgender-identified character.
The series, which became a massive hit in 2021, is a dystopian survival thriller about broke contestants vying to win a cash prize on a game show. To be victorious, they have to participate in a series of children’s games such as Red Light/Green Light and Marbles, but losing a game is a death sentence.
Actor Park Sung-hoo was cast in the Korean-language show’s second season to play the role of Hyun-Ju, a transgender woman. But activists wish an actual trans-identifying star had been cast instead.
“This is not how you give representation… a cis man pretending to be part of a minority group just doesn’t sit right with me, especially when they could’ve hired an actual trans actress,” one…
