According to GLAAD, over 80% of Americans do not know someone who is transgender. They started to have an idea about trans people through the media.

“Disclosure” is a film that shows us who is Transgender and how they were struggling in the past and. In the documentary, In the past, we saw trans people being subject to rejection, mockery. They were marginalized even violent. We saw at the beginning of the documentary the man or woman was running and people were yelling at her, so he jumped on the river to save a life. People were surprised to see someone with a man’s body and wearing a woman’s dress, or having female sex. In “ How I Met Your Mother (2011)”, the young man was surprised to see a woman in the men’s bathroom. He said” this is a men’s bathroom” and she replied “I know I am dude” and he took off his penis and started to pit as a man. He was so surprised because he has never seen that before. Bianca Leigh, Actress, the writer said “as trans people we know if you laugh with us or if you laugh at us”. Laverne Cox, the actress, said when she was little in her school, she was bullied. Also when she came to New York on the bus, when people looked at her, automatically they started to laugh. I can say that transgender life was not easy before because they were faced harassment, be fired, or denied from their job. They faced abuse and violence like in “Boys don’t cry” he has a man body, but he is biologically female. When his girlfriend’s brother discovers that, he ripped him. 

In the past, trans people were being denied access to critical medical care because they are transgender. Many Transgender people have to deal with physical and mental health problems because of discrimination and stigma. People or society where they live tends to tell them that their identity is wrong or deviant. These experiences can be challenging for them. It is not easy for them like  Lavern Cox said:” it is so hard to talk about I want to cry talking about it, it just horrible” Also, TiQ Milan, a media maker who is transgender and black he said it is difficult for him to deal with both at the same time because being a transgender is not easy and being a black man is terrible because of the racism. He said”  it is so frustrating when people ask you if you are a man or woman? “ Moreover transgender people are so afraid of what their friends will think or say if they know that they have a woman body, but with a penis. Transgender has to deal with all of those problems. However trans people especially transgender people who are accepted in their communities have a good life, good health because they know that people around them accept them as they are. They do not have to worry. 

Today because of the movie, TV, many people started to know much about trans people. In the media, we can see and understand trans people. Now they can live without fear of discrimination and violence. They are supporting and they can affirm who they are. They can express themselves because they do not want to be others. Now transgender people are people celebrating we have so many trans people in the government, the media, I can name, Alexandra Billings, actress, education, Susan Stryker, Historian, and Nick Adams, Glaad Director of Trans Media and representation. They are everywhere in the world.

I think this documentary is a good eye-opener for me because I learned a lot. Before I was so confused about booty transgender people. Sometimes I asked myself did they change their sex why? what is going wrong? Many questions passed through my mind. Today I see and understand trans people, they are just like others, but because of misinformation by the media people think that they are less than human, bad people, killers as  The TV shows us.

The title of the documentary” Disclosure” means that transgender wants to be seen by people, the world like they want to break the secret. They want to publish who they are, like the revelation of their identity. 

The snapshot of Patience Ocran gives a good example of the word “Disclosure” “For the First time trans people are taking the center of their own storytelling” by Jen Richards.

I think that people are people no matter what.  We should all respect and care for each other black, white, yellow, and trans people.