Pushing the boundaries of self expression

Transparent (TV miniseries, Season 1; 2014)

Living is easy with eyes closed. When you start analysing your existence in life, the purpose of life and start questioning every shred of existentialism, life becomes too complicated. It make living impossible for you and those around you.
When you feel discontented and yearn for the perpetual unattainable pleasures in life without appreciating the joy and magic that is around you, life can be a living hell. This, in essence, is the bane of modern living. We are unsure what we actually want in life. We are forever lamenting that life sucks and things could be better. We reach out beyond borders that are accepted as norm only to realise that that is not we were looking in the first place.
This new TV show just completed its first season, released for binge consumption by Amazon. The ten 30-minutes episodes narrate the saga of a dysfunctional family. The father, Mort/Maura, is a respected professor, who decide to come out in the open about his desire to cross dress, at the age of 60 plus. His struggle to live to his inner needs predates 10 years before the present and is told in flashback - how he used to secretly try out dresses and sneak out to a transgender camp. His wife, Shelly (Judith Light, we knew her as the main character of the 80s sitcom 'Who's the Boss'), left him after his confession for another man, Ed. This Ed is now demented and finally dies at the end of the series.

The season tells us how Mort/Maura slowly informs his kids (2 ladies and a man) of his cross dressing desires. This creates many error of comedy in this Jewish family. For a start, their Papa has become a Mama, so they address him as Mapa.

The kids themselves have the own sexuality problems. The elder daughter, a mother of two, decide to rekindle her lesbian relationship with her former college roommate. Another crisis that she has to handle is her issues with her husband and her desire to marry her partner.

The son, a confused chap in the music industry, jumps from bed to bed to partners unwilling to commit themselves. He finally finds love in a female Rabbi who had earlier vowed celibacy.
The younger daughter who is just pondering on her own true desires in life gets confessed to by her best friend who used to be her brother's girlfriend.
As the mother's boyfriend becomes more difficult to manage, the family comes together to decide whether they should pull the plug on him, by overdosing him. Luckily, they did not. He falls into the pool and drowns instead.

As you can see, this comedy is satire of sorts. On one hand, it highlights the plight of the transgender community and educate us that their transformation is not solely on fulfilling sexual gratifications. On the other, we wonder if he is creating further confusion as the transgenders start falling in love with the gender that they were biologically born to love! (Transgender male falling for females).

There is nothing sacred anymore - Boy & Boy; Boy & Girl; Girl & Girl; Boy & Girl & Girl; Girl & Boy & Boy.....

One theory that explains the increased incidence of gender identity crisis is the fact that oral contraceptive pills get metabolised in the kidneys and gets excreted into water cycle of nature and comes back to us in our drinking water, albeit in ultra low doses, screwing up the masculinity of mankind! Just a theory! Of course, people are more assertive these days on their likes and dislikes as well as demand their rights under the shield of the right to live as a human being.
Those afflicted with this aberrance insist that they are also God's creatures made in his mold. The opposers insist that The Divine is infallible and their conduct is self imposed and can be corrected.