“Misinformation is a huge issue for the trans community right now.”
There's so many assumptions that we must be straight. Or that we must be transitioning into heteronormativity. But there's so much crossover within theA lot of trans people are queer as well. A lot of trans people are gay, bi, pan or lesbians. You can't pull apart someone's identity like that. You can't separate their sexuality from their race, from their gender. There’s intersectional overlap.
If intersectionality has taught us anything, it's that the experience of a Black trans woman is a holistic experience. The different parts of her identity will impact on each other. You can't just say, "We're only addressing race today," because a big part of her experience with race is dependent on her gender identity and her sexuality.We only really see trans people on television when we are being interviewed about our trans-ness.
Because it plays into an act of dehumanisation. And the wonderful thing about being human is that we are individuals with unique interests. When do we ever see trans people on television talking about our unique interests? I want to see trans people being given opportunities to talk about what they are good at.
In TV and film, across the LGBT community, unfortunately, there's so many storylines of characters dying or being killed off. The aspect of tragedy that is attached to the LGBT community from all angles is something that definitely needs to change – though we are seeing it with shows likeEven though we have all of this communal trauma and oppression that we face on a daily basis, the joy and the talent and the resilience and the innovation that comes out of our community is second to none.
Mark my words, we will see a turnaround when it comes to the trans community. Look at the rise of drag – straight, cis societies only just started realising that drag is actually something joyful and not something seedy.We were putting kids in harm's way. We were driving people into survival sex work and violent situations. We were denying people housing. We were stopping people from getting jobs. We were running their healthcare services into the ground.
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