Squid Game creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk addresses criticism surrounding the casting of Park Sung-hoon, a cisgender male actor, as Hyun-ju, a trans woman, in season 2 of the hit Netflix series. Hyun-ju, a former special forces soldier, risks her life to play a series of deadly children’s games to fund her gender-affirming surgery. Returning to the dystopian series, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) of the enigmatic organization behind the games take center stage in a thrilling story about capitalism, exploitation, class disparity, and the true nature of humanity.

https://screenrant.com/squid-game-season-2-hyun-ju-trans-cis-actor-why-creator-response/