Talk:The Assignment (2016 film)

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Plot[edit]

In the second sentence of the "plot" section, it states that "After losing her medical license, she began an illegal practice...". It's my impression (or perhaps my interpretation) that Doctor Jane lost her license BECAUSE she started experimenting on subjects illegally, in order to practice her technique at performing gender-change surgery so it would be perfect when she did it to Frank Kitchen. It's an important distinction -- to me, all her talk about "adding to the knowledge base" is pure BS, just a cheap rationalization. In reality, her sole motivation is achieving the most horrible possible revenge against Frank. The reason she wants to perform the second surgery, removing his right arm, is because he had clearly adapted well enough to becoming a woman that he's able to return to his profession as one of the best hitmen in the business, and therefore he hasn't suffered enough. Middlenamefrank (talk) 19:59, 19 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Pronouns[edit]

After Frank's surgery she is a WOMAN and we need to use "she" and "her" to reflect this. Gender transition doesn't merely change a person's superficial appearance. Trans women are women, and I can't believe we're even having this conversation still! Come on people. It's 2019. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.0.242 (talk) 21:34, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Physical features don't define one's gender, only self-identification. In your designation someone who was assigned male at birth and identifies as female and hasn't undergone, or does not wish to undergo, sex reassignment would be considered male, which would be misgendering. If the film reveals the character's self-identification, we should stick to it. Otherwise I see no reason to use female pronouns. The forced surgery makes the character rather like a trans man unless they identify otherwise. Nardog (talk) 21:53, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, I guess I can see what you're saying. I wasn't trying to be disrespectful or misgendering of any LGBT person. I was just trying to make thus article better and more respectful, but maybe I don't know enough about these issues to really know what I'm doing, lol. Anyway, I'll stop edit warring. Sorry for wasting your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.22.0.242 (talk) 22:19, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]