West Side Story had the FIRST Transgender character on film

She was just a bulldyke.

It is a HE

He was trans

What was the name of the character? I've seen WSS on stage, but not the film version.

The character's name is Anybodys but she is usually just referred to as a tomboy.

How could the JETS be so mean and threatened by the Sharks, yet be so welcoming of the trans kid.

It is wonderful that the Jets were so tolerant of the trans kid. You'd think that translate towards the Sharks, this tolerance.

The character name is kiddo

He is not a transgender character unless he quotes from the anti-cisgender manifesto.

Not Trans, dyke.

[quote]How could the JETS be so mean and threatened by the Sharks, yet be so welcoming of the trans kid.

Because the concept of the "trans kid" had yet to be invented. She was a "tomboy." Boys were not be threatened by a girl envying their masculinity. It was when a boy spurned it that the shit hit the sissy.

Not even dyke. Most tomboys were straight. This was before women's athletics were common.

[quote] Most tomboys were straight.

But wasn't he spurned during the gym mambo?

First???

Marlene Dietrich was putting on tuxedos and kissing girls in the 1930s.

Bugs Bunny was practically living as a woman in the 1940s and 1950s.

R12 is why I hate everything about the pomoqueer movement, which pushes a very shallow, regressive view of sex roles. A woman wearing a tux or any other stereotypically male clothing is not necessarily "trans". Even if she was flouting convention, she was just a woman in a fucking suit.

Not only did the trans character get spurned at the dance, but he participated in the almost rape of Anita at Doc's

I think it's great that there's a dykey-tomboy character. I support her!

Not trans! Just athletically inclined and high spirited. A hint of lipstick would have done wonders for her.

A shame there wasn't a decent women's lacrosse team or crew team in the vicinity.

She was transgender

She was rubber!!!!

Baby John was kind of a fag. Tony and Riff probably let him suck them off, and you know he craved the Sharks' Puerto Rican pinga.

The Jets were always telling Anybodys to 'beat it.' They weren't exactly tolerant.

No trans. It was a tomboy, possible dyke-to be.

And R13 is correct

It is so backward to only think in stereotypical male/female roles, which extreme Republicans and extreme trans people seem to want to do.

You're an idiot, OP.

There are tons of trans characters in films. Alfred Hitchcock had several films with trans characters Here's one named Phil.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1930 film Murder! features a prominent character who could be described as a transvestite,, a transgender or a drag queen.

And of course the most notorious trans murderer in movie com, Norman Bates in Psycho.

Plus Hitchcock did a famous tv series where one of the most talked-about episodes featured a trans.

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Is R22 joking, or do people not know what homosexuality and androgyny is anymore? (And this on a gay site).

I'm calling baby dyke.

Honestly, the Jets should have been welcoming because the whole lot of them were gay as geese, even Tony (who was only confused briefly by Maria's fabulousness).

As for the Anita attack, they were all just making a grab for her cute hoop earrings.

I don't know, R24, is the OP joking?

OP, I don't see you answering the many people who have pointed out the many transgender characters in film previous to West Side Story.

There's even a notorious film that does nothing but explore questions of transgender identity, from the 1950s--Ed Wood, Jr.'s "Glen or Glenda?"

Don't you think it's time you admitted you were WRONG???

I would say that a woman who is dressed like a man, calls herself Phil and refers to a man as "old chap," in the 1930s is transgender. (Women did not refer to men as "old chap;" it was something one man said to another) not merely homosexual or or "androgynous."

The hostess is homosexual. Phil is transgender, R22.

It was an old butch lesbian thing from decades gone by to call themselves a man's name. Anyone who knows anything about gay/lesbian history knows this. Do not try to re-write history, please.

Alfred Hitchcock was obsessed with sexual roles and gender identification. He just couldn't explore it in depth due to the time period when he was making films.

Love his delightfully gay couple in The Lady Vanishes. They are sports-obsessed -- something people did not identify with gay males -- and they became heroic in the film's showdown.

Hitchcock switched gender roles in The Man Who Knew Too Much. In the original, the husband was sort of soft and unfocused before the kidnapping, while the wife was steely, unsentimental and an expert marksman. In his remake of the same film, the wife is sentimental and soft while the husband is steely and unsentimental. Hitchcock even switched the gender of the kidnapped child.

Oh please, R29. The hostess is a butch lesbian who does not dress like a man, serve the wine or call any of the men "old chap."

Time to admit you are wrong before you look like even more of a fool.

Time to admit you are crazy, R31

Wasn't Anybody's the bicycle of the Jet gang, hence her name?

No way were the cricket guys in The Lady Vanishes a couple.

Totally trans.

Ice is the new leader of the Jets after Biff is killed. Anybodys catches up with them and says he heard Chino plotting revenge. Ice gives everyone assignments, but not anybodys.

Anybodys: What about me?

Ice: You? (he pauses, thinks for a moment, and decides it is time to accept Anybodys) ln and out of the shadows. Maybe you'll find Tony in one of 'em.

Anybodys: Right! (who starts to run off, but Ice wants to make it perfectly clear)

Ice: Ya done good, buddy boy.

(The look on Anybodys' face is clear. Ice has accepted him as a boy!)

Anybodys: Thanks, Daddy-O!

From this scene on, Anybodys is one of the guys. The name of the character says a lot, but this scene seals it.

This transgender ideology and their lies is getting out of hand. She was tomboy or baby dyke, period.

Yes she was

Go for it

r33 You are correct. In fact, they grew up to become best friends, as seen in the British detective series, "Charters and Caldicott." One had a flat in town, the other lived out in the country, and was a magistrate. A hoot of a series.

In order for a person to be trans, they have to state they are trans. Unless a character is stated to be be trans than they are gay. Sorry, she's a dagger.

I think we need to get some definitions clear...

Sorry, I meant "transsexual vs. crossdresser"

Wow, what a load of bs.

So, a character who questions gender stereotypes in the 1950s is trans?

And, why aren't we talking about alleged trans characters in movies? Because, this is a gay site, not a trans site.

So, r27, you're saying that a biological woman in the 1930s who dressed like a man, called herself Phil and referred to a man as "old chap" had a male identity in her head?

Anything that challenges gender stereotypes is trans? Bullshit!

[quote]Alfred Hitchcock was obsessed with sexual roles and gender identification.

No he wasn't, r29, because no one talked in terms of "gender identification" back then. The concept wasn't invented until the 1990s or later.

Yep, let's wipe out all the gay characters and call them trans!

I don't think that's a very nice thing to say about Natalie Wood, OP.

Anybodys wasn't gay; she was in love with Ice, and who could blame her? Tucker Smith was a blond Adonis!

Advocate has "27 Transgender Film and TV Portrayals That Helped Turn the Tide" Anybodys is NOT on the list

Shame.

Sorry OP. You're an idiot. She was a she and she was pretty much the first portrait of a baby dyke ever. I'm not anti-trans but you folks have an issue with reality. 1-She was a babydyke 2-Jenner is a man until he does not have a penis. Oy...

Trans didn't exist back then. It was coined as a term in the 90s as umbrellas for homophobic homos & autogynphiles.

Laverne Cox is a homophobic homo.

Bruce Jenner is a straight man with a sexual fetish of dressing like a lady.

Neither are "trans" because it's impossible to transition from one bio sex to the other.

Gender is a social construct based on stereotyped sex roles. So is transgender...it's just preferring the opposite stereotype than the one you're born with.

The Wanderers also had a female character who was a straight tomboy played by Linda Manz. I wonder if she was supposed to be code for a gay boy or if she was simply the tomboy she was.

Hello; surely "Anybodys" is just a tomboy (girl)???

R48 wasn't she madly in love with the big, fat leader of the Baldies?

Anybody's was... well anybody's - they all could have her.

R51 is that what that means? I've always wondered.

Because we hate them?

When you're a trans,

You're a trans all the way!

From your first pronoun change

You'll be LGBTQIA!

People today are insane Trying to see WSS through a modern lense that just doesn't work. Anybodys wasn't trans; she was a very stereotypical tomboy who wanted to be accepted as part of the gang, but never could be. Could she have been a babydyke? not likely since she seemed to have a crush on one of the Jets.

The Jets continually rejected her not because she was trans or even a babydyke; the reason they rejected her isn't that complicated, they did it because she was a GIRL and not a boy.

West Side Story had the FIRST Transgender character on film

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Oh dear, OP seems like an ignorant fuckwit. Women have cross dressed throughout history. This is not because they want to be men, they are trying to protect themselves by removing their femininity. As Anybodys did not cut her breasts off, have her womb ripped out nor take untested off label meds and male hormones she was definitely not a sad little mental tranny