Queer Eye For The Straight Guy (2006) S04E09

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"The Fab Five help 24 year old trans-gendered Miles, who just moved to Brooklyn from California, embrace his new life as a New York man, and celebrate his new life with a coming out party for all his friends and family." -IMDb.

"[This episode] begins with 30 seconds of truly cringeworthy cis gay shenanigans. En route to Miles’s apartment, Ted Allen informs his companions that Miles “was born a woman, but identifies more as a man.” “Me too!” exclaims Carson Kressley. But Thom Filicia is still confused: “So he’s not really a man?” These attitudes are products of their time, of course — a time when trans people had been increasingly alienated from LGB circles, as the community focused its energy on fighting for marriage rights. It makes sense that the original Fab Five would be just as clueless about transgender issues as the average heterosexual, and to their credit, the guys are generally pleasant and supportive; Miles gets a good amount of airtime to explain what trans life is like for him, and he and Carson even bond over body image issues they share. But any trans viewer of the episode will be on the defensive from minute zero, and it’s impossible to tell going forward whether the gang’s ongoing mastectomy and “package” jokes are laughing with or quietly at Miles." -Them.