Ashley Love
Trans Advocate and writer
Posted: April 23, 2010 03:54 PM
An Image I'd Rather Forget: A Critique of Ticked Off Tra**ies With Knives
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ashley-love/an-image-id-rather-forget_b_549995.htmlThe film Ticked Off Tra**ies With Knives (TOTWK), spreads fear, misogyny, and hateful ideology. I have seen the film and it's very upsetting that people unfamiliar with transsexual and transgender women will walk away from the film with a stigmatizing perception of trans women. This film is dangerous propaganda, whether intentional or not. TOTWK leaves the viewer with the false impression that transsexual and transgender women are unauthentic in their gender identity and really "gay men in drag." The film portrays all trans women as hyper sexualized, jokes, murderous and/or unstable. This is not only inaccurate; it's offensive and incites further misunderstanding and violence.
