Jamie Clayton, who makes her debut on
Sunday's episode of Hung, says not all transgender people are
the same.
In the HBO series, Thomas Jane plays
high school teacher Ray Drecker, a struggling divorcee and father of
two teenagers living in suburban Detroit. With the help of former
girlfriend Tanya Skagle (played by Jane Adams), Ray begins
moonlighting as a male prostitute after a house fire leaves him with
few options. The pair call their business Happiness Consultants.
In Sunday's episode, titled Money on
the Floor, Drecker's new client is a transgender woman, Kyla,
played by newcomer Clayton.
The San Diego native told gay glossy
The
Advocate that she realized she was “different” at 19 and
that people need to recognize that not all transgender people are the
same.
“I think personally that the biggest
misconceptions is that we're all the same,” Clayton said. “I
think what people need to realize is that, with trans people, we're
like everybody else. No group of people are the same. All women are
not the same, all men are not the same, all children are not the
same. It's the same thing with trans people – we're all so
different, we have different goals, different dreams, and different
aspirations. For me, at the end of the day, I want to be judged for
my work, not for what I've been through and past experiences,
necessarily.”