"Law & Order: SVU" tackles trans issues with a familiar face

but when the field of suspects seemed to narrowed down to someone from the queer community, I stopped watching.

After seeing the episode of L&O CI where the guilty party was a man-eating, woman-manipulating bisexual woman...I really had no interest in seeing yet another reason to give the general public reasons to fear us.

Ya know?

Maybe I turned the tv off too soon if it was handled sensitively.

hahaha that's too funny.. Annd we're back.

I can say, with no embarrassment, that I think about those two together more than once a day lol.

I can not wait until Alex comes back in those power skirt suits, those glasses, and that long, golden, blonde hair. Ok I'll stop.

Anyway, I liked the ep. Of course I liked the other SVU trans ep where Shane from the L word played a trans male. I think it was called Fallicy (which is also a great Alex & Olivia ep as far as subtext/hotness).

All I can say is that I'm greatful that the 'others' from the rarely represented transgenered our LGBT community were represented and shown just how hard their lives can be. It's an eye opener for the straight eye I think.

it's was decent. but Mariska Hargitay?? She's the ONLY reason I still watch the damn show. Seriously.

I was really pleased with this episode actually. The boy that played Hailey did such a good job. I was sure he was a girl in real life even when they showed the flat chest when he was changing. I imdbed the episode and saw that it was in fact a boy named Bridger Zadina. That was perfectly casted. I kind of figured it was the guidence couselor before they actually revealed it, but it was a good twist at the end. I enjoyed it. And Daniella Sea, I gave a big whoop! when I saw her. Yeah, could have done without some of Stabler's lines but whatever, you win some, you lose some.

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I thought the episode was OK. I agree that the handling of the topic was very good, but I had issues with all the "violence" of the transgendered characters.

My other problem with the episode has nothing to do with the topic. I really realized how ridiculous the court scenes are. They would not let the guidance counselor have a 5 minute speech about what happened to her nor would they allow her to look at the jury and ask them what they would feel like if they woke up in the wrong body one day. It just wouldn't happen in a court, in my opinion. 

And just for the sake of talking about Mariska...i think she looks way better with short hair. i hate when they have her grow her hair out.  

I knew from the moment I saw the guidance counselor that she was going to be  transgendered.  Not really a surprising plot twist if you ask me.  I think while this episode was great in terms of tackling such a "taboo" issue I'm sorry to say the episode was boring!

Lately the only stories Im interested in is the ones where Stabler or Olivia are directly in the middle of it.   The best episode so far is when Stabler's daughter gets arrested and we get to see his mom and all the issues surrounding that.

I really enjoyed the episode. They handled the issue well. Even though the trans counselor was the attacker, they still made you feel something for the character. Even the father who was the victim understood that there are shades of grey with these issues. There were twists and turns throughout. The actor that played Hailey, Bridger Zadina was awesome. A very talented young man. He reminds me of the actor on the episode with the Lindsey/Logan case about the twins and the parents took one that was born as a boy and had a mishap during circumcision and raised him as a girl.  I believe that ep. was called Identity. I've seen that one several times and he gets my heart everytime. Reiley McClendon also a very talented actor.

 A brief comment on Stabler's remarks. They are showing that even though he may be open-minded about the whole situation he still is a regular guy. Not everything he says is going to be PC. That is reality so in my mind it works. We still have a long way to go before everybody gets it right. I as a black woman definitely experience white people who say the wrong things around me, and we have a black president for God's sake. There is always going to be some ignorance out there and the show just reflected reality.

I thought it was a well written if lop sided episode. Given the track record of the show as of late (Stabler's inability to be sympathetic, Benson's ability to be TOO sympathetic and Finn and Munch <3 completely MIA) I find that they try to handle every situation with as much realism as possible. Stabler's Robin Hood/Maid Marion crack is a natural reaction from him considering how jaded and cynical he's become as a character as of late.

Daniela looked alot like Zac Effron, instead of the Brawny man, but that's just me. I feel bad that she'll seem to continue getting offers for these types of roles, then again, on USA yesterday, they showed the episode where Kate was a M-F transexual accused of murder.

As for the guidence councilor, I thought that THAT was a far more powerful twist than anything else they showed in the episode. 

I can wait for Alex, I've been waiting long enough....I hope she replaces the current ADA whose name I just don't care to remember.

I wish Olivia would cut her hair. It caused my mouth to water in its golden days. 

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Kate Moennig played a MTF on SVU a while back. I actually just saw the episode yesterday.

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That the episode was actually rather sensitive compared to other ones which had lesbians and trans people in the past.

As always, Mariska's acting was above and beyond duty, and as far as Stabler's answer goes, I agree it is his usual jaded persona... 

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...applauding and crawling into a dark hole. SVU has gotten so messy for me lately that the only reason I really watch anymore is because I've been watching too long to stop now. 

I was excited when I realized that this episode was going to feature a trans character, and I prayed to the writing gods that they would not make her the killer. Well, they didn't, they just transfered it over to the other trans character. Great. 

They handled the issue itself alright; I could have stood to see a little more sympathy from at least Olivia. Both her and Elliot seemed too emotionless on the topic. 

But, it only reminds me of the only other trans character that was ever featured in an episode, played by Katherine Moennig ironically enough. That character got screwed over too, literally and figuratively. If you aren't familiar with the ep, it is definitely one worth watching (Alex Cabot era, and a damn good episode for her at that). 

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Aside from Daniela's seemingly permanent status as Max in the eyes of casting directors everywhere

That has more to do with her beard than anything. How can they cast a female actress in a female role when she has a beard??

As much as I agree that usually these L&O shows have despicable representation of lesbians et al, and this episode "had its moments",  I practically laughed through the "heart" of this episode--because it was so narsisistic and unrealistic, but more than that, if this wasn't over the top with personality disorders a plenty, I haven't watched enough television!

It also was ridiculously and clearly transparent that the counselor is trans (one is lucky these guidance counselors take ANY interest, let alone THAT much--and to attempt murder??? Please!) 

Message: Another queer out of control ready to kill and deceive in order to make a point.

Bottom line: The producers still managed to degrade the "sexual minority" to murderer status.

And, sorry, transporting "Max" from TLW helped less rather than more...

Was right there with:

"Actually, let's visualize Alex and Olivia together for a minute." 

I'm really glad I caught it last night. it was great and I was impressed with it since it's mainstream television. Det. Stabler's comment didn't bother me; it seemed within his character. I was excited that Max was on there, but I'm also aware of the typecasting. But. it happens. Jackie Blane being MTF actually threw me for a loop. Wasn't expecting that although I know I probably should have been. Anyway. Good ep.

Personally, I'd like to picture Det. Benson and Doc. Warner together for a moment. Mmmmm. Forensically delicious.

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I couldn't help but wonder if they saw Sea on set as Max ad grabbed her asking if she'd do a few scenes for SVU.

Or that they all watch The L Word and secretly want to have a crossover. I swear for a second I did truly believe that perhaps Sea was actually doing the transgender thing for real. The boy who played Hayley did a good if not whiny job, but my god that hairstyle was naff.

Did anyone else smile when Olivia told Misty to take off her shirt or else she would take it off for her!?

i love daniela sea and was so glad to see her in the episode and sans beard. also, stabler is a very religious conservative man who cares about his family deeply, and so when hailey asked him what he would do if his son came home in a dress, i thought it was an interesting little inner conflict...the show never stops amazing me. and come on ...Michaela McManus (ADA Kim Greylak)?! wow. wow.

did i mention that daniela sea was lookin' goooooooood?  

Is that the voodoo lady/pharmacy worker from True Blood...?

"You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads!"

 apparently she went sking over the holidays and had an accident, got a punctured lung :(