Not Funny

The truth is if TV or the movie producers actually portrayed a (trans)woman in a scene or episode properly there wouldn't be anything unusual about it because a woman is a woman, and every woman has a history, some just have a slightly different one than being a girl when she was young.

When 2 1/2 men had cis-gender female play the role of a transwoman they still did a bad job of it than what they could have done, but since it is a comedy show and anything is open for laughs, well anything the public likes to joke about, transwomen are easy targets.

Would they have portrayed a gay man as an effiminate, even flamboyant, man? Would they have portrayed a transman was a butch lesbian or vice versa? Would they have portrayed a skinhead as a sexist racist?

No they wouldn't, because the jokes would backfire on them from the media and the various groups. But transgender people, really transwomen, are still fair game for the media. It's why many in or post transition woman aren't out or in the transcommunity.

No wants to become a target for hate or jokes. If you notice the only out (trans)women are always "passable", usually beautiful. That's because it's what the media wants and they (transwomen) think how it best portrays them.

It doesn't, it only glamorizes them and forces the rest to try to live to that standard. Gee, where have we heard that argument about women and beauty. Either you are or want to be beautiful, and it doesn't matter what type of woman you are, just be beautiful.

I won't argue against as some have that a cis-gender female is good to portray the woman in the show's episode. I think it was fair to show you can't tell the difference between a genetic woman and an in or post transition woman because there is no real difference outside of their birth sex.

And that's not what makes good comedy. They could have just as easily found ways to make having been or being transgender funny is a positive way, they didn't. They chose the standard laugh line to make sex the joke and make the audience stupidier in the process.

That doesn't help the cause of transgender women. And they wonder why we hate the media for things like this. Being stupid and not funny is what it is, it's called the media.