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It isn't everyday that Amazon makes you feel your opinion matters. Well, actually it is. Yesterday's reach out was about a pilot for a new show, Jill Soloway's Transparent . I think because I watched three and a half seasons of past Parenthood within six months, the robots assumed I would like it. Who wouldn't? The selling points are (a) this is a family in Los Angeles; (b) the family is enmeshed, has terrible boundaries; and (c) there is no (c). I assumed it would be about transgender issues, a welcome change, no pun intended, and got that right. Had the show lived up to it, and maybe it will in the future, I would have raved. The transgendered people I see in my practice hurt from our cultural lack of understanding, and they have the same needs and wants as everyone else. Feeling accepted is an impossible dream in "ordinary" social circles. And it is very hard, seriously, to be a woman trapped in a man's body, wanting to shop, wanting to talk girl talk ...