Why Can’t ‘Orange Is the New Black’ Stop Torturing Its Transgender Character?
REALISM VS EXPLOITATION
The Netflix series has never given Sophia, its groundbreaking transgender character, much to do besides endure abuse. When will she get the same three-dimensional treatment as the rest of Litchfield’s inmates?
If you were to cut out every scene of Orange is the New Black that doesn’t contain Laverne Cox’s character Sophia Burset, you’d be left with a story about a transgender woman of color who is denied healthcare, separated from her family, beaten by her fellow inmates, and transferred to solitary...
