Trantasia

[Julie Marie]

I watched Trantasia last night.  It's about a beauty pageant held in Las Vegas billed as "The World's Most Beautiful Transsexual Beauty Pageant".  The movie should have been called Trantrashia,

For the most part, pageant contestants were drag queens.  (One was a narcissistic  ->-bleeped-<-c so obsessed with her body she couldn't keep her hands off herself.)  Drag queens are gay males (male brain) who have an obsession with their view of what a woman should be, so much so some resort to permanent physical alterations.  Drag queens are not transsexuals, at least not by my definition.

These women, gross exaggerations of what is female, paraded themselves around town making a spectacle of themselves and furthering the misconception that transsexuals are circus side shows who work the sex trades.  They help to dehumanize us and that's all that is necessary for society to justify their hatred, discrimination, prejudice and worse.

They went out on the streets looking like hookers and strutting their trash in front of anyone interested.  The faces of the onlookers told of shock, disgust and seedy fascination.  One contestant, one of few who interviewed genuinely female, walked away in disgust.  She later said she was sickened by the display and hoped to win the pageant to show the world what a real transsexual is, a woman.  She was one of the few bright moments in the movie.

This movie did about the same a Jerry Springer show does in promoting good faith and providing real education.  It's because of trash like this we have such a tough time with acceptance.  And it's because of the stigma created about transsexuals by this kind of crap that I don't like to refer to myself as transsexual.  The drag queens helped ruin the meaning of transsexual. 

I couldn't make it through the whole movie but I watched a good hour of it before the knot in my stomach turned into a splitting headache.  And I rarely get headaches.  The show sickened me.

Yes, there was a few genuinely human moments where they focused on some of the difficulties we face but the effect of that was negated by the sex obsession part of it.  I know, sex sells, but that doesn't make me feel better.

Since I was born with a female brain and a male body, I was born bi-gendered.  And since who we are is in the heart and mind and not of the body, I have to make physical alterations to reach a unified gender of mind and body.  Once that is complete, I am all woman, not transsexual, not bi-gendered, not transgendered, only a woman and deserve to be accepted by society as such.

And, like the woman who walked away from the drag queen contestants, I too will walk away and disassociate myself from anyone who hurts the reputation of people like me. 

I have nothing against drag queens, just as long as they don't go around in public parading around (obviously to promote business) and say, I am a woman (trans-woman, transsexual).  It gives those of who are a really bad name.

Julie

PS: In case you're wondering, yes, RuPaul's Drag Race makes me equally ill. 

[mickie88]

thanks for the review, it'll be one movie i sure won't be watching. and the person you mentioned at the bottom of your post, i won't mention their name since some of the celebrities check the online searches to see how many times they are mentioned. it would just add to their ego, and i really don't want to encourage that.

i have found that tv shows and other non-trans-related movies are getting situations more proper than the movies that are suppose too.

Sydney White
Soccer Mom

just to name a couple :>)

[heatherrose]

I haven't heard of "Trantasia" but I appreciate the reveiw.
I do know the sort of "show" you speak of and agree
that they are nothing more than glorified "drag reviews".
I never thought much about pageants of any kind, anyway.
I have always found them to be a parade of imbiciles who
can walk "perfectly", fill out clothing with an enviable form,
show off some mundane, mediocre talent and
spout mindless dribble about "wurled peas".
Productions of that type set back the
sufferage movement a hundred years.

Just as these "drag reviews" are a major hinderance in
our struggle to maintain our own human rights.

IMHO

Always Love,
Heather Rose