"Code Black": Camryn Manheim, Eric Roberts & Alexandra Grey To Guest Star in Season 2
by Denise Petski
July 20, 2016


Camryn Manheim (The Practice), Eric Roberts (The Player) and Alexandra Grey (Transparent) are set to guest star in the second season of CBS medical drama series "Code Black".

The three will appear in an episode titled “Life and Limb.”



Manheim will play Alice, the emotionally distraught wife of a truck driver who is injured in a horrific accident.

Roberts will portray Vince Savetti, Mario’s (Ben Hollingsworth) opportunistic, but sympathetic father who tries to hustle his son into an investment.

Grey is a transgender actress who will play the role of Beth, a strong, confident transgender woman. When stomach pains send her to the ER, she is forced to confront her past.



"Code Black" returns in the Fall in its Wednesday 10pm time slot.

http://deadline.com/2016/07/code-black-camryn-manheim-eric-roberts-alexandra-grey-guest-star-in-season-2-1201789459/

http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/karen-townsend/2016/10/06/code-black-transgender-character-compares-penis-appendix

By Karen Townsend | October 6, 2016 | 2:19 AM EDT

CBS’s Code Black joined the latest Hollywood social justice craze of inserting random transgender characters into storylines to promote acceptance from its viewers. The same pop culture activism that helped normalize gay marriage has now taken up the transgender cause big time.

In Wednesday’s episode titled “Life and Limb,” (http://forums.previously.tv/topic/48642-s02e02-life-and-limb/?do=getLastComment) a woman is being treated for abdominal pain and guess what was causing it? “Her” prostate. The post-op transgender woman named “Beth” (Alexandra Grey, who is transgender) apparently looked female enough that the doctors didn’t realize “she” was formerly a he until the lab work came back with a diagnosis of prostatitis.

Once it became apparent that the patient was transgender, the head nurse felt obliged to give the standard “we are all exactly the same” speech. Except we aren’t, of course. Men and women are different and there are two very distinct genders, certainly physically.

Beth tries to brush off her reluctance about disclosing her gender to the doctors by saying she was always meant to be a man. She compared the surgery to remove her penis to having an appendix removed – a “useless evolutionary artifact.” Sorry, sweetie, it doesn’t work that way.

By not wanting to be inconvenienced by telling doctors she is transgender – because then they’d want to talk about it – Beth delayed treatment of a very infected prostate gland, even to the point of going septic in the E.R.