Paltrow Out of Kidman Transgender Drama

I think it's just fine that Nicole is playing the part. If it were a no name transgender? The movie would not get many viewers at all. Atleast now it will get some. And, like it or not..most people suffering from gender identity..feel they have to get the operation. Kind of like women who feel they have to get the boob job. It, is what we go through. However, there not saying you have to get the operation to become a women. It's just some transsexuals like to have the body parts that fit who they feel they are inside. These are the types of movies we need, to get our point across to the world. People just dont understand. Thanks Nicole and company for making the movie!! Philip

Paul, educate yourself. You sound like an uninformed twit. I too believe that we should have a trans playing a trans in a movie about a trans. To me, it's like a white person putting boot polish on their face and trying to pull off a black character.

Sooo...Paul, you're judging and entire group of people based on the actions of one or a few...again no better then what the Hateros do to us.....Now onto the changing your body to be accepted or make one feel better about themselves.....not just a trans thing...Heterosexuals take part in changing their body to be accepted, liked, or feel better about themselves....so with that train of thought no more hair cuts, braces on teeth, plastic surgery for cosmetic reasons, tanning, spending hours at the gym to get the perfect body, changing hair color, piercings, tattoos, shaving....Many trans people do not change their bodies and their image because of homophobia...they do it because they feel and know with their heart of hearts that they were born in the wrong body....It is their body so they have a right to do with it what they choose as long as they are not using it to harm other people...and discrimination is wrong not matter what your O.P. is of one person or a whole group.

I have a great deal of respect for all human beings! I just question the wisdom of radical surgery to gain acceptance. I think we should deal with homophobia directly and resorting to surgery seems very extreme. I speak of male to female transxuals. I have only known one female to male sex switch and that was in San Francisco in the 1980's. She was so psychotic that I used to cross the street to avoid her. A large part of her rage was because she decided, after the operation, that she really liked men better and felt she had no resort except to try to pass herself off a gay man. She was notorious. Very tragic. Behind her back many gay boys in the Castro called her "pussy on a stick."

Paul in one sense this movie has no relevance to the gay community but it does to the LGBTQQI community...you're a snob....In another sense this movie does have relevance to the gay community as they are humans as well as us and are discriminated against on the same level as us if not more. And trans individuals are not trying to become straight. And unless you are trans you can NOT know how it feels to be them. It is so sad that you are treating them the way Hateros treat us...it's not cool

Im still baffled as to why Hollywood places born females in transgendered female roles... When I look at women in these roles, I still a born female woman, who horribly deepens their voice and acts less feminine than a trans woman does....

Sharon, perhaps I am an idiot, but I fail too see what's idiotic about questioning the wisom of having your genitals mutilated to become 'straight.'

Paul, You're in idiot.

This is going to be a bomb! Paltrop is wise to back out. Kidman is in way over her head (as she was when she tried to play Virginia Wolf.) I'm a bit confused about how a film about a male to female transexual has that much relevancy to the gay community. Transexuals sacrifice their genitals to make themselves more acceptable to straight society. Seems a bit of a cop out to this troll.

so nice to see the trolls posting; don't these people have bridges to protect or something