Film club: one step forward, one step backward
birdofparadox
http://www.birdofparadox.net/blog/?p=9368The representation of trans people in movies is a contentious issue, not only because cis actors are often cast in the roles of trans people but also because the scripts are inevitably ciscentric and more often than not play into the same old transphobic tropes that many of us experience every day.
So it's interesting to read of two recent trans themed films – and the reactions to them.
From Turkey, Emrah Güler's review of Teslimiyet ('Other Angels') for Hürriyet Daily News notes the history of the usual stereotypes (and points out that the four trans women in the film are all cast as sex workers) but adds:
