'That representation is important, but our possibilities have never been limited by how Hollywood depicts us.' Read more from TrevellAnderson on why transgender representation and visibility in TV and film is only a starting point for liberation ⬇️
with fellow journalist Shar Jossell — I’ve thought a lot about my younger self. About that Black child in Charleston, South Carolina, who knew they were “different” as early as four years old but wouldn’t have the language to best articulate themselves until decades later. About that kid who paid a little too much attention to how their granny rolled on her stockings or how she gingerly applied eyeliner and lipstick, not knowing the lessons they were learning.
, the child of Sonny and Cher, back in 2015. This was four years after his transition was chronicled in the Emmy-nominated documentarywhich made him the first openly trans man on a major network television show for something unrelated to being trans. As I write in my book, I was struck by how unfazed Bono was by his trailblazing for trans and transmasculine people — not to mention the rest of the LGBTQ+ community, too.
“I’m a guy just trying to make a living as an actor just like thousands of others,” he said to me before adding, “People have a very fixed idea of me and who I am.” Bono then described how that fixed idea, invariably the result of being an out, visible trans man years earlier — and the child of an icon — made it difficult for him to have the career he desired. It made it hard to get seen for roles and forced him, like so many other trans creatives, into producing just so he could work. Blazing a trail had created a limiting reality for him and those following in his footsteps.
Such a byproduct of visibility is especially limiting for trans folks Black and Brown, femme and not, famous and less so, who don’t come from the type of life that Bono did.
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