,” which chronicles the history of trans images in Hollywood, film and TV saw trans people as jokes or victims or villains – not as human beings.
In “Disclosure,” actress Jen Richards explains how the depiction of trans women in Hollywood has a direct link to the ongoing violence against trans women, especially trans women of color. Recent news headlines about anti-transgender policies and violence are evidence that the world is treating trans people exactly the way Hollywood has conditioned society to: with fear, shame, ridicule, and hate.
I was pleasantly shocked to learn that my family in the Philippines and in Guam had watched “Disclosure” and cried at the very thought that a simple movie like “Soapdish” had changed the course of my life and made things even more difficult for me. But because film and TV are so influential, they didn’t know what to do back then, except to believe what they saw.
Today in Hollywood trans people are given a slice of the pie, and in rare cases, the whole pie. But we know this is not enough. We need to be in the kitchen making the pies.
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