Much like Ross’s lesbian ex-wife, the storyline is a mixed bag of ’90s/2000s ignorance, with a desire to be both genuine and comical. While I was never an avid Friends viewer, I do remember seeing the episode where we meet this character, and it both played the character fo laughs, but also had a sentimental reconnecting moment-especially since, eventually, the character did get to co-walk Chandler down the aisle. So we didn’t refer to that character as ‘she.’ That was a mistake.” “Pronouns were not yet something that I understood. “We kept referring to her as Chandler’s father, even though Chandler’s father was trans,” Kauffman explained. Kauffman told BBC World Service’s The Conversation that this was a mistake. Kathleen Turner, played the character, who is referred to as “Chandler’s father” in the series, even though it is clear that the character is meant to be trans. Now, she is speaking about the mistakes in how it handled Chandler Bing’s (Matthew Perry) transgender parent. Friends co-creator Marta Kauffman has been speaking lately about the diversity errors on the ’90s NBC sitcom.
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