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‘Friends’ Co-Creator Says It Was Wrong to Misgender Chandler’s Parent

The hit sitcom has already been slammed for its treatment of other minority groups.

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George Pimentel

By Dan Ladden-Hall

One of the co-creators of the sitcom Friends says it was a “mistake” to misgender a trans character on the show. In an upcoming interview with the BBC World Service, Marta Kauffman said the representation of Chandler Bing’s parent Helena, played by Kathleen Turner, was wrong. “We kept referring to her as Chandler’s father, even though Chandler’s father was trans,” Kauffman said. “Pronouns were not yet something that I understood. So we didn’t refer to that character as she. That was a mistake.” Turner herself said in 2018 that she would not take the part again, arguing that it should have been given to a trans woman.

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