ArticleDee McLachlan has worked in the film industry for more than 20 years, having made documentaries and feature films internationally. Several of her films have had theatrical releases in the US, including Born Wild, which starred Brooke Shields and Martin Sheen, and The Second Jungle Book. However, after she transitioned from male to female, her career "hit a brick wall".
"All emails stopped from LA; they didn't particularly want to know about it," she says. "A lot of the companies I worked with in the US, it was easier for them to work with someone else. I got offered a children's film and it was going to be a studio picture. They always interview the director for these kids' studio films and they said 'come over but you've got to come as a man, because we don't want any transgender story floating around the director on a kids' film'. So I had to pass that up."
