Network TV Greenlights Trangender Cavorting, Viriginity-Stealing and Monkey Sex For Fall Lineup

Network TV will allow a transgendered character into Dirty Sexy Money's crew. I wonder which one does the "cavorting"...

Network censors - it's a new mother-f***ing day.

Well, sort of. For its fall lineup, a network channel, for the first time ever, is allowing "male characters on a TV series cavorting with transvestites."

Doesn't this seem so ridiculous? I forget how puritan and backward network TV (and a good chunk of the country, I guess) can be, as apparently this never would have been allowed before, and writers had to really "push the envelope" for such a scene to air.

So upcoming ABC shows Big Shots and Dirty Sexy Money both have scenes with trannies in them. That's all I've heard - I don't really know how they will be written in, but I'm scared their scenes are going to be offensive (especially since Big Shots is about, to quote their own Web site, "greedy, horny and competitive yet sexy and likable CEOs").

Oh, and Dirty Sexy Money doesn't sound like a great platform for the transgender community either, as its premise is a straight-shooting lawyer who comes into absurd wealth after the death of his blue-blood father. I guess I shouldn't pre-judge; maybe they'll surprise me (Dirty Sexy Money does have Brian Singer on as a producer, and I love him).

Those progressive censors allow two more scandalous scenes in upcoming shows...after the jump.

One of the CEOs in Big Shots will run afoul of a tranny - oh no!

The were two more cultural breakthroughs in TV for the fall: allowing teenagers to talk about swiping a freshman girl's V-card and (I swear) allowing a horny monkey to attempt to join in on human sex.

I'm not going to talk about how that's OK, but how I never saw a gay kiss on Will & Grace, I just think it's so funny/dumb how hung up people get on such harmless things just because they're on TV. I guess the bottom line is money; the major, major networks don't want to take the tiniest chance on offending anyone.

In case you're wondering (because you totally want to watch now, right?), the monkey-sex will be on Fox's The Rules for Starting Over, and the CW's Gossip Girl (based on the teen book series) will have the scenes with high-schoolers talking about "tapping a freshman girl's ass."

I feel like high-schoolers talking about sex has been on network TV before - or maybe they've managed to only hint at the virginity aspect up until now. Ah, so many creative doors opened.