Candis Cayne Recalls Confronting CSI Director Over Inaccurate Portrayal of Trans Women
-esque style performance on stage and then she gets killed in the men's bathroom at the stall," Cayne says of portraying aYet the premise didn't sit right with Cayne, who wanted to accurately represent the trans community onscreen. "I went up to the director and I said to her, 'Listen, I'm trans and no trans woman would go into the men's bathroom,'" Cayne remembers.
Thanks to Cayne's statement, the scene was re-written to instead feature her character being drowned in the ladies' room toilet.
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