Cabler AMC's new unscripted series
Small Town Security features Lt. Dennis Croft, a transgender
military man.
According to the show's description,
Small Town Security “explores the real life of a small,
family-run security and private investigation company in Ringgold,
Georgia called JJK Security.”
The show revolves around Joan Koplan
(the “Chief”), who is described as “Wildly – and hilariously
– inappropriate, she is worshiped by her team.”
Speaking to gay glossy The
Advocate, Croft, who has three boys from a former marriage,
said the marriage did not break down because of the transition.
“I did not lose my spouse because of
my transition,” Croft said. “I lost because I would no longer
just follow. They wanted to rule and be directive in my life the way
they saw it even though it was wrong for me. I did have identity
issues for years, but my transition began much later, by eight years
after the divorce.”
He added that he's received
overwhelming support.
“I haven't really felt a change.
Those who know me and about me haven't flinched. I found that
surprising. It has not been what I expected of others and I see that
folks are not the typical haters of my kind that I thought. The
South has grown up from the childish games of prejudice.”
(A clip from the show in which Croft is
revealed to be transgender is embedded in the right panel of this
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