There is an unjustly unnoticed series in which a trans woman is miraculously able to exist without suffering or having to justify her existence to the others. The show is called Loot (Apple TV) and is about the story of Molly Novak (amazing Maya Rudolph), a recently divorced from one of life’s Jeff Bezos (ever-great Adam Scott), who becomes a billionaire after the breakup and decides to start a new one start life as a philanthropist (yes, it’s inspired by the story of Mackenzie Scott, formerly Bezos, the same person who gave 13,500 million euros to charities).
In addition to a super rich woman rediscovering herself, something fantastic happens in Loot. Working with Molly is her NGO director Sofía Salinas, played with eloquent comic vision by MJ Rodriguez, the first trans woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress for the series Pose. When series creators Matt Hubbard (30 Rock) and Alan Yang (Parks and Recreation) cast Rodriguez, they asked her if she wanted her character to be a trans woman (yes) and if so, if she was in the over his identity would speak series (no).
70 years ago, Marijane Meaker, author of the pulp lesbian novel Spring Fire (1952), was allowed by the publishers to publish her love story between two women on the condition that it had no happy ending. If so, “homosexuality would look sexy” and could be read as an attempt to make queer people look “cool”. Is Sofia von Loot a (good and happy) trans woman? As Rodriguez responds to the question, “It’s as blue as the sky is blue.” Nobody should feel threatened by the sight.
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