Broadcaster Harisu mentioned unfair demands she faced when she debuted.
On the 10th, the YouTube channel "This Is the Real Final" featured a video titled "Only 13 doggos: five minutes to total chaos," in which dancer Monika and broadcaster Harisu appeared and talked.
That day Harisu said, in response to the question "Weren't you worried before debuting?", "I stepped in as a male student in 1991. I started as an extra. At that time my family registry was also a male registry, so when signing contracts I had to talk about my gender identity, so I gave up a lot, and there were many cases where I talked about it and the job fell through."
Harisu said, "Then in 2001 I shot a cosmetics commercial. Isn't a cosmetics commercial the ultimate dream for a female entertainer?" She added, "When I revealed that I was transgender, there were cases where people asked, 'Are you really a woman?,' 'We need to verify you're a woman,' and demanded sexual relations or told me to take off my clothes."
She added, "So I often gave up roles or did not sign contracts."
She went on, "When I was loved by the public, people smiled kindly to my face and said different things behind my back. I wanted a life as a woman so I had surgery, and I thought I had achieved it all, but that was the starting point of my life. From society's perspective, I'm just a transgender person."
Meanwhile, Harisu is a singer and broadcaster who debuted through a 2001 commercial. At debut she drew attention as the country's first transgender entertainer.
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