Jamie Clayton and Matt Bomer clash over transgender casting in two new films

Actress Jamie Clayton has criticised the casting of Matt Bomer and Michelle Rodriguez in transgender roles in two new films.

Matt has landed the role of Freda, a transgender sex worker, in Mark Ruffalo's new movie, Anything.

Michelle will play the lead in Re Assignment, a film about an assassin out for revenge after unwanted gender reassignment.

Transgender Sense8 actress Jamie shared her frustration on Twitter.

Bomer responded to her message by blocking her, which she also shared online.

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"I really hope you both choose to do some actual good for the trans community one day," she wrote to Matt and Michelle, sharing a tweet from @TransHollywood.

Read her original tweet.

She then shared a screengrab showing that Matt had blocked her.

"It's sad that this happens," she tweeted.

A day later she revealed that he had unblocked her, but hadn't responded or made any comment about her original tweet.

"That's rad and Twitter is rad for creating a space for our thoughts," she says.

Jamie was responding to an article shared by @TransHollywood from essayist Emily Maxima about Hollywood's approach to transgender roles in film.

While Maxima says that it was a "bold step" to start making movies focusing on transgender people, she claims movies such as The Danish Girl are examples of "cheap opportunism".

"Hollywood has an obvious incentive to tell these stories, but even with well intentioned actors like Eddie Redmayne, it can also be exploitative if artists aren't careful," Emily writes.

"The trouble is that if you want to make art that truly imitates life, then you have to do it in such a way that it actually imitates something real."

Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Oscar for his role in The Danish Girl

Michelle Rodriguez's upcoming movie Re Assignment has already been forced to change its name after its original title Tomboy offended the trans community.

Mainstream productions with portrayals of transgender life, such as The Danish Girl, Dallas Buyers Club and Transparent have all met with critical acclaim but a mixed reaction from the trans community.

"Everything about its view of trans women and women in general is regressive, reductive, and contributes to harmful stereotypes," wrote transgender journalist Carol Grant in an Indiewire review of The Danish Girl in December.

But Kristyana Finch, president of Gender Diversity Alliance South Australia, told SBS that the suggestion that transgender actors should not necessarily be cast in trans roles.

"The concept that any transgender actor is going to necessarily want all the transgender parts is totally absurd," she said in her own critique of The Danish Girl.

Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Oscar for his performance of Lile Elbe in the movie about the first identifiable person to undergo gender realignment surgery.

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