Eliza clark

“In this world post the event, gender is somewhat irrelevant,” Fletcher said. He is not representative of a singular character in the comics but is an example of new stories being told in the series. So…there are numerous men in the show who have two X chromosomes they’re important characters.”Įlliot Fletcher’s Sam Jordan is one such example of a male character who survived. So similarly, the survivors are just as diverse because, as FX chairman John Landgraf painstakingly explained, “There are women with two X chromosomes, men with an X and a Y chromosome … women with two Y chromosomes and there are men with two X chromosomes. … We are making a show that affirms that trans women are women, trans men are men, non-binary people are non-binary, and that is part of the richness of of the world we get to play with.”

Tragically, that includes many women it includes non-binary people it includes intersex people. And so, in our world - in the world of the television show - every living mammal with a Y chromosome dies. “Gender is diverse and chromosomes are not equal to gender. “Yorick’s maleness is not what sets him apart in this world - it’s his Y chromosome that sets him apart,” showrunner Eliza Clark pointed out during the show’s Television Critics Assn. The show, based on the graphic novels of the same title, is set in a world where an extinction-level event wiped out all of the individuals with Y chromosomes - except for two: the titular man, Yorick (played by Ben Schnetzer), and his monkey. FX on Hulu’s adaptation of “ Y: The Last Man” is setting out to ask questions about gender and identity and, perhaps even more deeply, what parts of a person’s identity has been imposed by society?