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An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.

Countries: US
Languages: English
Runtime: 1hrs 47min
Status: Released
Release date: 2020-06-19
Release format: Streaming — Jun 19, 2020
Comments
@axolot 5 years ago

"Children can not be what they can not see" this is so important. Films with LGBTQI people don't turn kids queer or trans. The kids just notice that who they are and what they feel is valid, it is something that people are. 🌈

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@axolot 5 years ago

"Children can not be what they can not see" this is so important. Films with LGBTQI people don't turn kids queer or trans. The kids just notice that who they are and what they feel is valid, it is something that people are. 🌈

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Fran
@2016moonlight 5 years ago

Great GREAT documentary, with one of the most clear explanations on why cis actors should not be playing trans roles. A must watch.

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Bas
@basinator 4 years ago

A good documentary, albeit I think somewhat dull at the beginning, about how trans are displayed in the media, how that is flawed and dangerous, how it affects how people treat trans persons IRL and expectations. And once you became aware of some things...some portrayals are just gross in retro perspective.

Since a lot of scenes of different movies and shows are shown, this also can work as an entryway to find other LGBTQ movies to watch.

This can be...emotionally hard to watch. Thus, the passage below is in a spoiler about the experience of a trans woman.


[spoiler]I had to be OK with my mom saying "I will never call you Jen because Jen murdered my son."
I had to...I had to be okay with that in order to survive myself, you know? In order to deal with not being able to see my grandma before she died because I could only come home if I dressed as a boy.
I had to deal with the fact that one of my best friends, who, like, I stood up at his wedding, won't let me meet his children.
I have to deal with these things. I have to live with those things.

-- Jen Richards, transwoman and actress.[/spoiler]

Statements like these, which are hard to read, and many more in the documentary - They all highlight how our trans need all our support and assistance and tolerance they can get. They are still experiencing injustice daily.

Rating: 8/10

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Miguel A. Reina
@miguelreina 5 years ago

[Netflix] A journey through transgender representation in film and television, with a similar structure to the series "Visible: Out of television" (Apple Tv +, 2020). But, in fact, it is a documentary on transfeminine representation, as normalization, but only mentioning the reasons for trans-masculine non-representation. Finally, the film is as incomplete as this transgender representation has been to date.

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