--- title: GLAAD Slams 'Tomboy' for Gender-Reassignment Surgery Plot description: Though the civil rights group admits it hasn’t read the script canonical: https://time.com/4091767/lgbt-watchdog-slams-tomboy-movie-for-gender-reassignment-surgery-plotline/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-28T23:16:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T23:44:22.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: LGBT Watchdog Slams 'Tomboy' for Gender-Reassignment-Surgery Plotline og:description: The movie is about an assassin given involuntary gender-reassignment surgery og:url: https://time.com/4091767/lgbt-watchdog-slams-tomboy-movie-for-gender-reassignment-surgery-plotline/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: LGBT Watchdog Slams 'Tomboy' for Gender-Reassignment-Surgery Plotline twitter:description: The movie is about an assassin given involuntary gender-reassignment surgery twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # LGBT Watchdog Slams _Tomboy_ Movie for Gender-Reassignment-Surgery Plotline  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:44 PM UTCPublished: Oct 28, 2015 11:16 PM UTC  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Updated: Dec 13, 2023 11:44 PM UTCPublished: Oct 28, 2015 11:16 PM UTC **Correction appended** GLAAD, the watchdog group that monitors how LGBT people are portrayed in media, has [denounced](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glaad-tomboy-transgender-gender-reassignment-surgery-835192?utm%5Fsource=twitter) the upcoming film _Tomboy: A Revenger’s Tale_ over its use of gender-reassignment surgery in the plot line. “We haven’t read the script, but it’s disappointing to see filmmakers turning what is a life-saving medical procedure for transgender people into a sensationalistic plot device,” GLAAD’s director of programs for transgender media, Nick Adams, told the _Hollywood_ _Reporter_. In the action thriller starring Michelle Rodriguez, a professional assassin undergoes gender-reassignment surgery against his will and is converted into a woman, who goes on to see vengeance on the surgeon who did the procedure. “We are at a crucial moment in the public’s understanding of transgender issues, and stories like these have the potential to undermine the progress we’ve worked so hard to achieve,” Adams said. _Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified GLAAD’s director of programs for transgender media. His name is Nick Adams._ \[[_THR_](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glaad-tomboy-transgender-gender-reassignment-surgery-835192?utm%5Fsource=twitter)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4091767/lgbt-watchdog-slams-tomboy-movie-for-gender-reassignment-surgery-plotline/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4091767/lgbt-watchdog-slams-tomboy-movie-for-gender-reassignment-surgery-plotline/"},"headline":"LGBT Watchdog Slams Tomboy Movie for Gender-Reassignment-Surgery Plotline","datePublished":"2015-10-28T23:16:50.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T23:44:22.000Z","description":"Though the civil rights group admits it hasn’t read the script","url":"https://time.com/4091767/lgbt-watchdog-slams-tomboy-movie-for-gender-reassignment-surgery-plotline/","keywords":["movies","LGBT","Transgender","gay","Trans"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4091767/lgbt-watchdog-slams-tomboy-movie-for-gender-reassignment-surgery-plotline/","name":"LGBT Watchdog Slams Tomboy Movie for Gender-Reassignment-Surgery Plotline"}}]}] ```