“Transparent” creator Jill Soloway called early 1990s “Saturday Night Live” recurring sketch “It’s Pat” an “awful piece of anti-trans propaganda” on Friday during a GLAAD panel at the Television Critics Association press tour.
The “I Love Dick” executive producer was prompted by the following question, which one media member posed to the entire “Transgender Trends on TV” panel: “In the representation throughout history, do you recall the first time you saw yourself represented in a way that just broke your heart?”
Soloway cited the skit as a “hateful, hateful, awful thing to do to non-binary people — to create this character that the whole world laughed at openly.”