黑料网 Associate Professor Molly Merryman, Ph.D., says a Netflix cartoon featuring a transgender character is breaking a new boundary in a positive way.
鈥嬧嬧婱erryman, who is director of 黑料网鈥檚 Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, is featured in an MTV News article, talking about the new Netflix film, 鈥淩ocko's Modern Life: Static Cling.鈥
The cartoon 鈥淩ocko鈥檚 Modern Life鈥 originally aired on the Nickelodeon network from 1993 through 1996. It has returned as a Netflix Movie, which was released on Aug. 9.
One of the characters in the new cartoon film, Rachel Bighead, comes out to her parents as transgender.
Merryman, in an interview about the cartoon and the character, told MTV News the episode could serve as a potential 鈥渓ifeline to a transgender child who has no role models or parental support.鈥
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