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6	[[caption-width-right:350:Left: Brandon Teena, trans male protagonist of ''Film/BoysDontCry''.\
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10	In recent times, Hollywood has tried to get more UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} or nonbinary roles in their stories. For whatever reasons, many of these roles are offered to cis actors instead of trans actors. This can be for several reasons:
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12	# Good old-fashioned transphobia. While the directors and casting directors are open-minded enough to be involved in transgender stories and portraying trans and non-binary people on screen, they are still ignorant/transphobic enough to not cast transgender and non-binary actors.
13	# Star Power: Sadly, for a combination of reasons, there aren't a lot of openly trans or non-binary working actors who are also HouseholdNames. The pressure to turn a profit might lead to the higher-ups of the project deciding to cast a cisgender, larger-name actor to help the project get greenlit.
14	# The role is so offensive and stereotypical that no self-respecting trans or non-binary actor would take it.
15	# The character was not written to be transgender or non-binary when they were first cast, or the character transitioning or coming out during the story would result in recasting, which would break continuity and immersion, or would make the show to [[MoneyDearBoy go over budget]].
16	# It just so happens that the best people auditioning for the role happened to be cis actors, or there was a lack of availability of trans and non-binary actors that suited the role, especially more so if the character belongs to [[TwoferTokenMinority more minority groups other than being trans or non-binary]].
17	# In the case of dubbing to another language, their culture and country has a [[ValuesDissonance very different views and tolerance of gender and the queer community]] compared to the country the work originated from; resulting in most queer performers from that region and cultures staying in the closet or even actively being persecuted (Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners, Koreans and Chinese are the most prominent examples who consume Western media).
18	# For older works, casting cis actors as trans characters was the only option, since there weren't as many openly trans actors back in, say, the '90s and 2000s.
19	# The work is about the character coming out as trans and out of necessity starts with them still presenting as the gender they were assigned at birth. Having a trans actor, even one who has yet to start medically transitioning, take on such a role could cause psychological issues. Also, casting someone in the process of transitioning could lead to problems with continuity, particularly if their surgeries meant they were often absent from the set and scenes were not being shot in chronological order. For these reasons, the casting director decides it would be more practical to cast a cisgender actor in the role.
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21	Among many more reasons.
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23	This is especially [[UnfortunateImplications unfortunate]] if the cis person in question plays the gender the character does NOT identify as (i.e. a cis man playing a transgender woman or, more rarely, a cis woman playing a trans man) because [[https://variety.com/video/jen-richards-on-cis-actors-in-trans-roles/ it is implying]] [[https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/2023/04/08/how-do-cis-actors-use-language-play-trans-characters that trans people]] are just [[{{Crossdresser}} crossdressing]]. Cis women playing trans women and cis men playing trans men tend to be better received but may still be [[https://atranslog.medium.com/cis-actors-in-trans-roles-why-it-matters-e3c5b05fe90e criticized]] for taking the role from the pool of trans actors.
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25	This practice was tolerated and widespread in the early days of Hollywood. Though the Aussie soap ''Series/Number96'' cast trans actress Carlotta as a trans woman in 1973, in America, a transgender actor had not appeared on a small screen until ''2001'', with Jessica Crockett in "Out", an episode of ''Series/DarkAngel'', playing bit character Louise, who is also trans. This was because the transgender community wasn't as prominent and they figured that bad representation was still better than none. But due to transgender activism and progressing societal attitudes, [[https://www.thepinknews.com/2018/08/07/hollywood-giants-transgender-representation/ there have been movements]] to reduce or stop this practice altogether due to the reasoning that transgender actors are struggling enough [[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/oct/28/cast-more-transgender-actors-in-non-trans-roles-union-urges to get roles normally]] but now they have to compete against cis actors ([[https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/trans-actors-challenges-8338/ who are usually more well known]]) playing roles that were written for and about their community. And that's not even mentioning the profit, accolades, and awards cis actors receive for playing trans roles, further perpetuating the imbalance in power between cis and trans performers. However, it should be acknowledged that this practice was [[https://www.gendergp.com/trans-characters-on-screen-from-mockery-to-protagonists/ what opened the doors for the trans community]], offered visibility, and garnered sympathy and momentum for their cause by [[FairForItsDay getting any transgender representation]] on-screen ''[[ValuesDissonance at all]]''.
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27	One variation of this trope is when a cisgender actor is cast to play a transgender character for scenes set before the character's transition while casting a transgender actor to play them post-transition.
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29	Note: This is NOT a place for Administrivia/ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontLike, complaining about the character or complaining about the performance of the cis actors in question. The show, the character, and the performance can be of any quality (some even won prestigious awards and became StarMakingRole for the cis actor) and still fit this description.
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31	This is the opposite of ActorSharedBackground, DisabledCharacterDisabledActor as well as QueerCharacterQueerActor. Compare with CrossCastRole, where the actor plays a character with the opposite gender of themselves. Can lead to CrossdressingVoices if a man voices a transgender woman or a woman voices a transgender man.
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33	!!Examples
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35	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
36	* ''Manga/BlackButler'': Grell Sutcliff, who is transfeminine, is voiced by Creator/JunFukuyama in Japanese and Daniel Fredrick in English, both of whom are cis male actors.
37	* In ''Literature/ChivalryOfAFailedKnight'', the transfeminine Nagi "Alice" Arisuin is voiced by the cis male voice actors Creator/ShintaroAsanuma and Creator/ChrisPatton in Japanese and English, respectively. Also doubles as QueerCharacterQueerActor in the latter's case due to Chris also being openly gay.
38	* ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'': Kanamori or Venus, one of the main designers at Designer Department, a flamboyant and beauty-obsessed designer woman whose masterpiece is the bird. She is voiced by Creator/DaisukeKishio.
39	* ''Anime/IxionSagaDT'': Mariandale,a transsexual maid who wields pistols akimbo and protects the princess. Occasionally, she reverts to her male voice, also made by Creator/JunFukuyama.
40	* In ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'', Irene Adler comes out as "James Bonde", but they're still played by cisgender women, Creator/YokoHikasa in Japanese and Creator/NatalieVanSistine in English.
41	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'':
42	** Magne, a transfeminine member of the League of Villains, has cisgender male voice actors: Creator/SatoruInoue in Japanese, and Creator/JeremyInman in English.
43	** Tiger, a transmasculine hero, is played by cisgender male actors: Creator/ShinnosukeOgami in Japanese, and Creator/MarcusDStimac in English.
44	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
45	** Morley is a trans woman, but she's voiced by cisgender men (Kenta Miyake and Brad Kurtz) in both Japanese and English.
46	** Kikunojo is a trans woman voiced by cisgender actress Creator/MariyaIse in Japanese.
47	** Yamato, who is transmasculine, is voiced by the cisgender actress Creator/SaoriHayami in the Japanese dub.
48	* ''Anime/TokyoGodfathers'': Hana, a trans woman, is voiced in both the original Japanese[[note]] Yoshiaki Umegaki [[/note]] and [[Creator/GerardoReyero Latin American Spanish]] dubs by cisgender men.
49	* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': One member of The Demon Triad, Miyuki, while initially presented as cis, is quickly revealed to be a trans woman (demoness?), and is voiced by cis actresses Ako Mayama [[note]] who was credited as "Rin Mizuhara" as that was her stage name at the time [[/note]] in Japanese and Peggy Paterson in English.
50	* ''Manga/YoureUnderArrest'': Aoi Futaba is a transgender woman, and in the English, Japanese, and Latin American Spanish dubs, she's voiced by cisgender women; Creator/RicaMatsumoto, Creator/AmyTipton, and Sara Pantoja, respectively.
51	* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga'': In episode 8, Lily is revealed to be a trans woman, but in both Japanese and English dubs, she's voiced by cisgender actresses; Creator/MinamiTanaka and Creator/SarahWiedenheft, respectively.
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54	[[folder:Film -- Animated]]
55	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLifeStaticCling'': Joe Murray, a cisgender man, reprises his role as Rachel Bighead, who used to be known as Ralph prior to her transition.
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58	[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
59	* ''Film/ThreeGenerations'': Cisgender actress Creator/ElleFanning plays the transgender teenage boy Ray.
60	* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'': Cisgender actor Creator/TerenceStamp plays transgender woman Bernadette who is one of the main characters.
61	* ''Film/AllAboutMyMother'': Two transgender women are played by cisgender actors: Lola played by Toni Canto and Agrado played by Antonia San Juan.
62	* ''Film/{{Anything}}'': Cisgender actor Creator/MattBomer plays transgender woman Freda Von Rhenburg - the love interest of the main character.
63	* ''Film/AreYouBeingServed'': Mr. Humphries' three transgender friends are all played by cisgender actresses - Marianne Broome, Nicki Howorth, and Creator/RikkiHoward.
64	* ''Film/BetterThanChocolate'': Trans woman Judy was played by actor Creator/PeterOuterbridge, a cis man.
65	* ''Film/BoysDontCry'' is based on the life and death of trans man [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Teena Brandon Teena]], who is played by cis actress Creator/HilarySwank.
66	* ''Film/BreakfastOnPluto'': Cisgender actor Creator/CillianMurphy plays transgender woman Kitten.
67	* ''Film/TheCryingGame'': The love interest of the main character Dil is revealed to be a transgender woman, played by cisgender femme gay actor Jaye Davidson.
68	* ''Film/DallasBuyersClub'': Cisgender actor Creator/JaredLeto plays the transgender woman Rayon.
69	* ''Film/TheDanishGirl'': Cisgender actor Creator/EddieRedmayne plays [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili_Elbe Lili Elbe]], one of the first transgender women to undergo sex reassignment surgery in history. [[https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/regressive-reductive-and-harmful-a-trans-womans-take-on-tom-hoopers-embarrassing-danish-girl-213499/ A review by a trans woman]] explains why the movie and Redmayne's portrayal is insulting to trans women.
70	* In ''Film/DasepoSonyo'', trans girl Double Eyes is played by cis actress Eun-Seong Lee.
71	* ''Film/DogDayAfternoon'': Cisgender actor Creator/ChrisSarandon plays the pre-op transgender girlfriend of the main character who cannot afford gender reassignment surgery, leading him to rob a bank to pay for this. The character is based on the real-life trans woman [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Eden Elizabeth Eden]] - girlfriend of the man who orchestrated the robbery.
72	* ''Film/DressedToKill'': The killer is revealed as having been a trans woman who was seeking to get sex reassignment surgery. She's played by cis actor [[spoiler:Creator/MichaelCaine]].
73	* In the Danish drama movie, ''En Helt Almindelig Familie'', the young protagonist's father, who comes out as a trans woman, is played by cisgender male actor Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. This is a bit of an unusual case as the movie is based on director and screenwriter Malou Reymann's own experiences of growing up with a father who came out as a trans woman, and how she eventually came to accept it and support her. Reymann decided that having a cisgender male actor play the role would more accurately reflect the confusion an 11-year-old girl feels when a person that she has always conceived as a "regular" man is suddenly revealed to be a woman.
74	* ''Film/EscapeFromLA'': Trans gang leader Hershe is played by cis female actor Creator/PamGrier. The filmmakers made a nod towards realism by deepening her voice in post-production, and Grier grew her body hair out to portray a trans woman with little access to beauty supplies.
75	* ''Film/FatalGames'': The main reveal of the story is that Diane Paine isn't just the killer, she also underwent a sex change operation, purely for the sake of winning. She's played by cisgender actress Creator/SallyKirkland.
76	* Cis actress Lauren Mollica plays trans man Aggie in ''Film/IttyBittyTittyCommittee''. Most critics found him to be the most sympathetic character in the DysfunctionJunction.
77	* ''Film/AMightyWind'' ends with [[spoiler:Mark Shubb (played by cis actor Creator/HarryShearer) transitioning into living as a woman]].
78	* ''Film/MixedNuts'' has Creator/LievSchreiber as a trans girl. The original French version, ''Le Père Noël est une ordure'' (1982) has cis male actor Christian Clavier in the same role.
79	* ''Film/MonkeyMan'' - Cis actor Vipin Sharma plays Alpha, the elder of the hijras. Trans actresses Reva Marchellin (Yummy), Pehan Abdul (Lakshmi) and Dayangku Zyana (Priya) play the three most prominent hijras other than Alpha, though cis man Fahad Scale plays the fourth, Pooja. Originally, the plan was to shoot in India, but due to Covid, production was moved to Indonesia, where it was impossible to bring over hijra actors, and there was a difficulty casting trans actresses who hadn't gender affirming care (due to the hijras being penniless and isolated, many in real life have none except for castration). The army of trans women at the end were all male dancers and stuntmen. Despite this, trans reaction to the film has almost universally been positive.
80	* In ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'', trans woman Loretta is played by cis actor Creator/EricIdle.
81	* ''Film/MyraBreckinridge'': Cis actress Creator/RaquelWelch plays the title character, who is a trans woman.
82	* In ''Film/TheNakedGun 33 1/3 The Final Insult'', cis actress Anna Nicole Smith plays the trans character Tanya Peters (her revelation scene is a parody of ''The Crying Game'').
83	* ''Normal'' (2003): Cis actor Creator/TomWilkinson plays a trans woman; her LGBTAwakening is the focus of the plot.
84	* ''Film/AReflectionOfFear'': The killer is revealed to have been assigned male at birth but raised as and identifies as a girl. She's played by cis actress [[spoiler:Creator/SandraLocke]].
85	* Cisgender actress Creator/ScarlettJohansson [[https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/scarlett-johansson-says-she-mishandled-transgender-casting-controversy-n1092131 was set to star]] in a movie called ''Rub and Tug'' based on the life of a transgender man massage parlor owner Dante "Text" Gill. However, the backlash against Johansson's casting and her subsequence DearNegativeReader [[https://www.bustle.com/p/scarlett-johanssons-response-to-her-new-movies-backlash-just-reiterates-the-root-of-the-issue-9669582 public response]] has made her quit the project and the film was shelved.
86	* Creator/VanessaRedgrave plays real-life transgender woman athlete [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9e_Richards Renee Richards]] in ''Film/SecondServe'' who is heavily discriminated against when she tries to qualify as a female pro player.
87	* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'': The killer is revealed as assigned male at birth but raised as a girl. In sequels, she identifies as a woman and has undergone sex reassignment surgery. She's played by cis actress [[spoiler:Creator/FelissaRose]] in the original and the fourth sequel. Cis actress [[spoiler:Pamela Springsteen]] played her in the second and third sequels.
88	* Queer male actor Creator/LeePace portrayed Creator/CalperniaAddams, a real trans woman, in the film ''Soldier's Girl'', about her relationship with Barry Winchell, a US Army private who became the victim of a fatal HomophobicHateCrime as a result by a fellow soldier.
89	* ''Film/{{Transamerica}}'': Cisgender actress Creator/FelicityHuffman plays pre-op transgender woman Bree who fathered a child named Toby before her transition. Their relationship is the main conflict of the film.
90	* ''Film/TheWorldAccordingToGarp'': Cisgender actor Creator/JohnLithgow portrays transgender woman Roberta Muldoon who was one of the women at the women's shelter run by the main character's mother.
91	* ''Film/Zoolander2'': Cis actor Creator/BenedictCumberbatch plays the trans character All.
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94	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
95	* ''Series/AliceInBorderland'': Trans girl Hikari Kuina is played by actress Aya Asahina and by actor Rihito Itagaki in a flashback. Neither are trans in real life.
96	* ''Series/AllMyChildren'''s Zoe Luper, a transgender woman (albeit a pre-op one still in the "living/dressing as a woman" stage of her transition) was played by cisgender male Jeffrey Carlson.
97	* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryHotel'': Trans bartender Liz Taylor is played by cis actor Creator/DenisOHare. Granted, there were pre-transition flashbacks. O'Hare defended himself by saying that he initially assumed Liz was a crossdresser when he was offered the role.
98	* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'': Cisgender actress Karla Mosley plays transgender actress Maya Avant, who became the first trans female character to feature on a US daytime soap opera as a series regular and the first transgender bride to be married on a US daytime soap opera.
99	* In ''Series/BritainsGotThePopFactor'', the role of trans woman Geraldine [=McQueen=] was played by cis male actor and comedian Creator/PeterKay (who also cowrote, directed and produced the show).
100	* ''Series/ChicagoHope'': Trans femme characters appeared played by cis woman Creator/MiaSara and cis boy Shawn Pyfrom.
101	* On the SoapOpera ''Series/TheCity1995'', transgender woman Azure C. was played by cisgender actress Carlotta Chang.
102	* In the 2009 episode "Make Over" of the police detective drama ''Series/TheCloser'', cis actor Beau Bridges played a trans woman, who had previously been known to one of the regulars as a male detective friend. This character found it very difficult to accept his good buddy in the persona of a woman. The spinoff ''Major Crimes'' featured cis boy actor Tanner Buchanan as a trans girl, Michelle Brand.
103	* In the ''Series/ColdCase'' episode "Daniela", the eponymous victim is played by cis actress Onahoua Rodriguez.
104	* In ''Series/CoronationStreet'', the character Hayley Cropper (a trans woman and the first transgender character to feature in the series) was played by cisgender actress Julie Hesmondhalgh.
105	* In ''Series/CrownCourt'' "The Change" features cis actress Judy Loe as a trans woman.
106	* ''Series/DeadOfSummer'': Trans boy Drew was played by the cisgender actress Creator/ZeldaWilliams.
107	* In ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': Adam is a trans boy played by cis actress Creator/JordanTodosey.
108	* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', trans villainess Cassandra is played by actress Creator/ZoeWanamaker.
109	* ''Series/{{ER}}'': Cis male actor Vondie Curtis-Hall as a trans woman, and cis female actress Megan Vint as a trans girl.
110	* ''Series/FirstDay'': In the Danish dub, trans girl Hannah is voiced by the cisgender voice actress Nora Balck Sørensen.
111	* ''Series/{{Friends}}'': Chandler's estranged, drag queen father, who was confirmed as a transgender woman years later, is played by cisgender actress Creator/KathleenTurner.
112	* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': Coach Bieste, who came out as a transgender man and medically transitioned in Season 6 after being written as a straight, if butch, cisgender woman for the previous four seasons, is played by cisgender lesbian actress Dot-Marie Jones.
113	* ''Series/HitAndMiss'': Cis actress Creator/ChloeSevigny as Mia, the trans woman protagonist. While Sevigny is classically feminine, the story averts an EasySexChange by showing her taking hormones and mentioning she's had plastic surgery, even using a prosthetic penis for a nude scene (she's saving up for sex reassignment).
114	* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Cis actor Creator/BrittanyDaniel as "Carmen the Tranny". The show creator Creator/RobMcElhenney has gone on record saying he regrets the insensitive writing around the character and would cast a trans actor if the show were made now, also expressing regret about using trans slurs.
115	* ''Series/JudgingAmy'' - Cis actor Ryan James plays trans girl Sasha Wilmer.
116	* ''Series/JustShootMe'': Trans woman Brandi, Dennis' old friend from high school, was played by the cisgender actress Creator/JennyMcCarthy.
117	* ''[[Series/LADoctors L.A. Doctors]]'' featured (the very androgynous) cis man Keram Malicki-Sanchez as trans man Alex.
118	* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
119	** In "Fallacy", cis actress Creator/KatherineMoennig plays trans woman Cheryl Avery.
120	** In "Transitions", trans girl Hayley is played by cisgender actor Creator/BridgerZadina. Her counselor, Jackie Blaine, is played by actress Creator/AishaHinds, who has been mistaken for a trans woman in the past due to her size but is cisgender. The episode does feature an actual trans non-binary actor, Daniel Sea, in the minor role of Blake.
121	** In "Transgender Bridge", cis actor Christopher Dylan White plays trans girl Avery Parker.
122	* In ''Series/MrRobot'', cis actor Creator/BDWong plays transgender woman hacker Whiterose. Justified in that Whiterose is a Chinese government official who is still in the closet and thus must appear as a man in public.
123	* ''Series/OrphanBlack'': Creator/TatianaMaslany, a cis woman, plays trans man Tony Sawicki. Justified as Tony is one of the many clone characters in the show who are all played by Maslany.
124	* ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'': Zigzagged in the case of trans woman Sophia, who is played by trans actress Creator/LaverneCox and became her StarMakingRole. In flashbacks to periods before she transitioned, she is played by [[MakingUseOfTheTwin Cox's cisgender twin brother Marcus Lamar]].
125	* ''Series/PlayForToday'': The episode 'Even Solomon' casts cis actor Paul Henley as a young man who eventually realises he is Susan Piper, a trans woman.
126	* ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'': [[spoiler:[=CeCe=] Drake, played by cis actress Vanessa Ray, was revealed to be a trans woman and the main antagonist A. Her reveal as the main villain of the show coupled with the fact that she is played by a cis woman has attracted ''a lot'' of criticisms for playing to harmful stereotypes of trans women.]]
127	* ''Series/RabCNesbitt'': Creator/DavidTennant appears as trans bartender Davina in one of his earliest roles.
128	* ''Series/RayDonovan'': Cis male actor Alex Saxon as trans woman Chloe.
129	* ''Series/StrangeEmpire'': Joanna Boland, who plays trans man Morgan Finn, is cisgender.
130	* In ''Literature/TalesOfTheCity'', trans woman Anna Madrigal is played by cis actress Creator/OlympiaDukakis. When a [[Series/TalesOfTheCity2019 sequel series]] was produced for Netflix in 2019, Dukakis was allowed to reprise the role, despite increased awareness of how this practice affected trans actors; the producers also elected to cast a number of trans actors in roles as a way of compensating.
131	* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': In the episode "[[Recap/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChroniclesS2E13EarthlingsWelcomeHere Earthlings Welcome Here]]", Eileen, a trans woman on the run from an evil arms company that she worked for before she transitioned, is played by Dinah Lenney, a cis actress.
132	* ''Series/{{Transparent}}'': Trans woman Maura Pfefferman - the titular transparent, is played by cis actor Creator/JeffreyTambor. After the show became a hit, other trans characters were played by trans actresses. Tambor stated he'd be glad to end up being the last cisgender man to play a trans woman character.
133	* ''Series/TwoAndAHalfMen'':
134	** Transgender man Bill from "An Old Flame With a New Wick" is played by Creator/ChrisODonnell.
135	** Trans woman Paula from season eleven is played by Creator/PaulaMarshall.
136	* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'', cis actor Creator/DavidDuchovny plays trans woman Denise Bryson.
137	* ''Series/UglyBetty'': Daniel's transgender sister Alexis, is played by cisgender actress Creator/RebeccaRomijn.
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140	[[folder:Video Games]]
141	* Despite being non-binary and using they/them pronouns, Bloodhound from ''VideoGame/ApexLegends'' is voiced by cis queer woman Creator/AllegraClark (albeit pitched down to sound more androgynous).
142	* Aristotle from ''VideoGame/BillieBustUp'', who is demimale and uses both he and they pronouns, is voiced by cisgender actor Edward Bosco.
143	* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', trans man Krem is voiced by cisgender actress Creator/JenniferHale.
144	* Inverted in the English dub of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''. The English voice actress for Wuk Lamat is a transgender woman named Sena Bryer, but the character is a cisgender woman.
145	* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': Bridget is a character introduced all the way back in ''Guilty Gear XX'' who years later, in ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearStrive'', comes out as a trans girl. Despite that, she's voiced by cis-actresses in every appearance.
146	* ''VideoGame/IDOLiSH7'': Kaoru Anesagi, the manager of TRIGGER, is a trans woman voiced by cis male actor Creator/YoshihisaKawahara in the game and the anime adaptation.
147	* ''VideoGame/TheMissingJJMacfieldAndTheIslandOfMemories'': [[spoiler:Cisgender actress Kellie Holway voices trans woman J.J. in the dream world, while cisgender actor Steve Wiley voices her in the real world (where she's still boymoding).]]
148	* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGoofs'': Candy comes out as a transgender woman in ''Stupid Invaders'', and she is still voiced by the cisgender Creator/CharlieAdler.
149	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Birdo, one of the earliest examples of a trans female in video games, has been voiced by cisgender actors, both male and female, since the 2000s. In the UpdatedRerelease of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', ''Super Mario Advance'', she was voiced by Creator/JenTaylor, whereas starting with ''[[VideoGame/MarioGolf Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'', she has consistently been voiced by Creator/{{Nintendo}} composer Kazumi Totaka.
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152	[[folder:Web Animation]]
153	* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'': Before being [[TheOtherDarrin Darrin'd]] by nonbinary voice actors Jazzy Oliver and Shooshies respectively in 2022, Paintbrush and [[spoiler:Bot]], who were revealed to be nonbinary, were voiced by the cisgender voice actor Taylor Grodin.
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156	[[folder:Western Animation]]
157	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': BMO, a genderfluid robot is voiced by Nik Yang, a cisgender woman.
158	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Marshmallow and the prostitutes in "Sheesh! Cab, Bob?" are all trans women, but they're voiced by cisgender men. However, Marshmallow (who's black) was later recast by black transgender actress Jari Jones following the [[UsefulNotes/BlackLivesMatterMovement George Floyd protests]].
159	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Cisgender male creator Creator/SethMacFarlane voices Quagmire's transgender mother Ida.
160	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFungies'': Non-binary mushroom kid Lil' Lemon is voiced by a cisgender woman, Nik Yang.
161	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Hermaphrobot the transgender woman is voiced by the cisgender Creator/JohnDiMaggio.
162	%%No confirmation of her being trans * ''WesternAnimation/{{Spongebob Squarepants}}'': In the episode "My Leg", which emphasizes Fred, the fish that always scream "My leg!", is revealed to be in love with a nurse named Daisy Bazooka, a tall, muscular and bearded female fish that works as a nurse. Due to her appearence and deep manly voice, she's considered a transgender woman, and she is voiced by Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson.
163	* While ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'''s most prominent trans character (Raine) is voiced by [[TimeShiftedActor two]] non-binary voice actors, there are a few portrayed by cis actors.
164	** Masha is voiced by Creator/GreyDeLisle. It's likely that they either weren't intended to be non-binary at the time of their introduction (given that the writers had to make massive changes to the show's plot when Disney cut season 3 short) or it was an attempt to hide their true gender as it's implied that they transitioned in between their first and second appearances.
165	** Similarly, the bigender [[spoiler:Papa Titan]] was voiced by [[Creator/{{Egoraptor}} Arin Hanson]].
166	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNutshack'': Cherry Pie the transgender woman is voiced by Rex Navarette, a cisgender man.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'': Anita is a pre-op transgender woman, and she is voiced by the cisgender Creator/BillyWest.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
169	** In "Mr. Garrison's Fancy New Vagina", Mr. Garrison gets surgery and becomes Mrs. Garrison (though turns back into a man in "Eek, a Penis!"), but is still voiced by show co-creator Trey Parker, a cisgender man.
170	** Trey Parker also voices the show's parody of real-life trans woman Creator/CaitlynJenner.
171	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'': Alice the trans woman is voiced by the cisgender man Christy C. Karacas, [[DescendedCreator who is also the show's creator]].
172	* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsLooniversity'': Non-binary character Dizzy Devil is voiced by Betsy Sodaro, who is cisgender.
173	[[/folder]]

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