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* In an episode of ''[[St. Elsewhere]],'' one of Dr. Craig's old pals shows up at the hospital. All goes well until he happens to mention that he's having sexual reassignment surgery. After having a trademark freakout for most of the episode, Craig finally accepts the situation.
* One episode of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' features Sarah searching for a man on the run from Skynet, only to find out he's been hiding his identity by living as a woman. None of this is played for laughs, and with zero amount of freaking out or any talk about sex. Alan/Eileen later admits to being strangely grateful for the opportunity to live as her true self, despite being hunted.
* In one episode of ''[[Rab C. Nesbitt]]'' a new barmaid at Rab's local pub is a pre-op trans woman (played by David Tennant, no less!). At the end of the episode she helps Rab and Mary to get revenge on Mary's extremely sleazy new boss (who has been sexually harrassingharassing her from her first day in the job) by taking Mary's place at work one day and seducing him in the broom cupboard, leading to a spectacularly horrified reaction when he discovers certain unexpected items...
* In an episode of ''[[Law and& Order: Special Victims Unit]]'', the [[Victim of the Week]], Cheryl (played by [[The L Word|Kate Moennig]]), is on trial for beating a man to death. As the investigation continues, it's discovered that she is a pre-op trans woman, and she acted in self defense. Long story short, she was put in a men's prison, and after her trial, {{spoiler|she is gang-raped}}.
* An episode of ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation|CSI]]'' featured a well-intentioned doctor who did back-alley sex-change operations. It also revealed that some show girls weren't born girls.
** In another ''CSI'' episode, the victim was a pre-op trans woman, killed by an actor after he goes to bed with her, discovers her sexual identity and freaks out about the fact damaging his carreer. It ended with Grissom saying:
{{quote|There's an old rule of showbusinessshow business that says 'Never be caught with a dead woman or a live man. He was caught with both.'}}
** A similar case happens in ''[[CSI: New YorkNY]]'', where a trans woman (who was still transitioning) is found dead in the men's toilets of a very posh hotel that happened to have been running a political rally/party at the time. The initial suspect was a governor who had raped the woman's sister, but the murderer was actually a man who she'd made out with earlier that evening - finding out that she was biologically a man enraged him (made worse by the fact that his friends knew, and found it hilarious that he'd kissed a man), and he flipped out when he saw that she was using the men's room "like a normal man".
* Two episodes (that I recall) of ''[[NCIS]]'' had trans characters. One became a (brief) running joke after Tony made out with her, and whilst the subject wasn't dealt with insensitively, it wasn't amazing either. The other was a character who was dead by the time the episode really began (suicide), and was dealt with a lot better, even if there was the obligatory "he... she... he-she" moment.
* An episode of ''[[The Listener]]'', "Lisa Says," had a trans character. Well dealt with and reasonably unusual because the character was FtM.
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