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![]() ![]() ![]() Though there are still controversies about how the media treats gender identity, it’s fair to say that no major studio today would release a film that depicted transgender people so cruelly. ![]() ![]() Instead, as in many fictional depictions of transgender people in that era, the scene’s prevailing emotion is of nose-holding disgust. The term was not in widespread use at the time, and there was little culturally suspect then about playing gender identity for laughs. Not that she’s called “transgender” in the movie. At the climax of “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective,” the 1994 comedy that vaulted Jim Carrey into superstardom, our rubber-faced hero has a showdown with a woman who he suspects was once a man. ![]()
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