Trans media representation

[SandraJane]

Trans media representation


Kat posted this in Gender on February 14th, 2012

http://mixosaurus.co.uk/2012/02/trans-representation/


from http://www.thegenderbook.com / @thegenderbook

Perhaps unexpectedly, My Transsexual Summer has focused some of my thoughts about representation, power and self-representation.

There are well-worn tropes in trans documentaries – so well-worn that there is more than one drinking game out there, with invitations to drink for things such as "any reference to genital surgery that refers to "becoming a woman" or "finally a woman"", a "close up of dotted lines in magic marker on pale fleshy body parts", "if anyone uses the phrase "a man trapped in a woman's body," or vice versa", or to just to down the whole bottle for a camera in an operating theatre. This is the kind of representation the trans community is used to.