Response 12

Watching this documentary shows how inhumane the real world can be. For years and decades, Transgenders have been mocked and judged unfairly. Their sexuality degraded, displayed, and wounded. The media played and continues to play a major role in the disrespecting of trans people. There has been a continuation of over-simplified and distorted image of trans people, which continues to harm them in every way possible. In the film, “disclosure”, we can see how hurt these trans people are, to have their sexuality insulted and not been able to do much about it. It is truly annoyingly fascinating the numerous movies produced that all give of the same story and view of trans people. In these Hollywood movies showcased in the documentary, trans people are angry, psychotic, and impatient. Its either that or they turn out to be murderers who always end up dying, they are portrayed to have psychological issues. They hire real transgenders and have them play roles sex workers who end up dying. Talking of sex working, many trans people in the real world (according to the documentary) must result to that kind of work, because no one wants to hire them. And one way or the other they must fend for themselves. Transgenders are also people with dignity and emotions, and rather than treating them like comics, they would like to be celebrated. They want to be seen and appreciated, validated just it is done for the men in society. Why can’t it be so? In the film, we notice that once a transgender was discovered by a partner, friend, neighbor, or any person who is close to them, they have a very disturbing reaction to the trans. They would vomit, take a shower, in a way cleansing themselves of being in any kind of association with them. They then go out of their way to further humiliate them. You would see in a movie that, “Oh! They are finally having a good presentation of trans people”, then the next scene comes, and you see that it is the same pattern. The comics, discrimination, vomiting, humiliation, you would think it would get better in the 21st century, but no. With regards to all the false representation of trans people in the documentary, and how they are shown to be “aggressive”, research shows that about eighty percent of the US population are in no close relation to a transgender. Christine Jorgensen was globally famous successful transwoman; she was not the first, but she was very well known. On uncountable occasions, different trans people have been interviewed, and during those sessions have been undoubtedly disrespected with the very unnecessary and rude questions like, “where did you hide your penis, how do you have sex, how is the surgery and so many others”. They are basically getting harassed on television. They go to the streets and the treatments are way worse and more brutal. Many trans people get beaten up for no good reason, they are stripped naked, some even get killed. 

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