One of the biggest lies I see paraded around by queer filmmakers and authors is that we are inundated with saccharine, It Gets Better trans narratives in media. And like, I get it, we all want to make "My Barely Concealed Memoir About Sexual Abuse And Transition But With Sci Fi Body Horror" and "A Harmony Korine Film But with Trannies," and the way you pitch those kinds of film is by loudly announcing that we are awash in mindless positivity and hopeful pablum and need you, our brave creative auteur, to come in and show the grime, grit, and tears of our lives. But it becomes kinda silly when like
In context this isnt about racial diversity, its about not depicting the messy and sometimes awful reality of trans lives. Like ok Louise Weard is a fucking sweetheart and I have no ill will toward her at all but like, whomst??? Who are the tranny directors out rn who are making feel good stories?? Hell, name me one tgirl creative like that?
Idk can we all admit to ourselves that the reason we wanna make weird stuff isn't some like, principled effort to fight back against the whitewashing of trans narratives and is instead bc all of us are kinda fucked up and weird and we like making stuff that is about abuse and death and trauma?
We are all Trent Reznor from this meme
