This week we watched the documentary called “Disclosure” which I found insightful and moving. The documentary was about the transgender community and their lives where society makes it difficult. The documentary starts by showing many images moving fast, different types of people, from different backgrounds. I found this powerful because it is showing the audience how big the LGBTQ community is. The documentary showed the highs and the lows of the community. While the community is getting more representation in acting, modeling, government positions; there are still setbacks from our society. For example, when Oprah Winfrey asked the transgender model “how does she cover her penis so it’s not noticeable” I thought that was disgusting. I do not understand how that question was appropriate to ask! I can maybe understand what she tried meaning but the way it was said (in front of an audience) was inappropriate, rude, and embarrassing. Another time this happened in the documentary was when the transgender model was meeting with a talk-show host and she asked her something very private. The transgender model recently underwent surgury. I think the host was wrong and again the way it was said came out wrong. I am glad that after this incident the host learned from the situation and asked how should people in the future speak so it doesn’t sound disrespectful. I think this was a great step forward in helping society change its language. We discussed many times in this class language changes people’s interpretations. I am proud of the models for dealing with that situation with class, and maturity. In addition, my classmate Emely D. snapshot shows a moving image where a woman is crying because there are many fingers pointed at her and asking her private questions. The woman looks afraid and scared of these fingers. Like the fingers are going to hurt her physically or emotionally. I think this future shows how society makes an impact on the transgender community. Nobody should live in fear. I think they did something important, instead of getting upset and fighting they chose to raise awareness of the way society speaks to transgenders. As I continued to watch I also got the feeling of distress, these individuals did not look happy, their smiles looked forced. A lot of the individuals from the transgender community had the similarity of feeling neglected and hated by their society. They all spoke about the way their community was made fun of in media and films. The documentary showed many films and tv episodes where transgenders were made fun of or degraded. It was a lot of immature and what I call “dumb-funny” films. I can see the hurt they felt and their frustrations speaking about their opinion on these films. I’ll be honest I never realized films/tv shows used the transgender community as a joke till I saw this documentary. So I learned something new and I think it’s important because it showed the audience awareness. Many of the individuals giving their perspectives were close to tears. I became emotional as well because they do not deserve to go through that. I was also able to connect with them because I have always been a curvy woman, but back then it was just “fat” and media and films also make fat people-related jokes. It always hurt my feelings to know people see me as “fat” or “ugly.” So I definitely agree society is hurtful towards communities that are not fit to meet the “beauty” our society approves of. This documentary was very moving and it gave me more awareness of things I did not know before. I think this was a great last reading for Gender Women’s studies.