Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen (2020)
Jen Richards: It's an interesting question, a kind of a thought experiment, to go back and think... what I would feel today, as an out trans person, if I had never seen any representation of myself in the media. On the one hand, I might not have ever internalized that sense of being monstrous, of having fears around disclosure, of seeing myself as something abhorrent, and as a punchline, as a joke. I might be able t…