Laverne Cox and Jaime Clayton do make several points. They're icons, they're legends and they will always be THE MOMENT

An important doc that traces the history of trans rep on screen — good and bad — and speaks to trans people about how they reconcile and relate to those images. You can’t expect a 108 minute film to catch every single trans portrayal on screen but I left feeling a bit frustrated the only transmasc characters we saw and talked about were all played by cis women. Why interview Elliot Fletcher and not talk about his roles in the Fosters or Shameless? Why have so many trans men talk about how under represented we are in media, only to under represent us even further in the narratives you focus on???
I want our legacy to be more than  Boys Don’t Cry, I’m so tired

Really brilliant stuff – eye-opening, sensitive and so thorough. The interviewees are all *so* eloquent and thoughtful, calmly explaining how for hundreds of years, well, we've been doing it wrong. Should be required viewing!

Edit: While I enjoyed this a lot, these pieces of writing by two trans critics, Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner, point to just how much the education I felt also does come from my own lack of knowledge, rather than the film painting any sort of full, comprehensive picture.

you don’t support trans rights? god ur pathetic 😾😾😾😾

I would pay good coin to see the face of every transphobic boomer when they’re told that Bugs Bunny is a transfeminine icon.

trans lives matter

This is very much the trans equivalent to the film adaptation of The Celluloid Closet -- it's shallow and scattershot, more focused on reinforcing an already established canon rather than elevating films from the past that could be empowering to people, had they not fallen into obscurity. Would something like The Queen even be so prominently featured here had it not been restored last year?

Babadeiro.

Billing this as a documentary feels a bit charitable. I understand this is what I signed up for, but it’s basically just a handful of interviews, amidst clips of every movie or TV show that has ever dealt with trans people. Production-wise, it felt like those “I love the 90’s” or “Best Week Ever” type of shows on VH1.

I’m increasingly bummed by the low-budget content Netflix is putting out, and this is no exception. I’m glad that people are enjoying this as much as they are, but, as someone who is already sympathetic to the message, I was just bored out of my mind. I suspect that people are giving this higher ratings more for the message than the actual value that this movie provides.

And just to be clear, *every* character on The L Word was a huge ass hole.

amazing!! really amazing!! i learnt so much about trans experiences and really understood more about the community and its history through this documentary.

Just because you see trans representation, that does not mean that the revolution is over.

This is a great documentary, first of all. Second, I agree with basically every criticism of Hollywood there is in this film. Third, MADONNA DID NOT INVENT VOGUE. Glad someone is here to reinforce that point lmao.

Man fuck Ace Ventura

When 80% of Americans say they do not personally know a trans person and therefore are only exposed to trans stories in the media, this is one thing they can watch to begin to gain a deeper understanding.

Everyone needs to watch this, immediately

toward the beginning when one of the interviewees refutes d.w. griffiths' legacy as a direct, immediate rebuttal of the previous interviewee's statements i thought this was going to be really critical and complex. but then after that kind of just felt like a supercut video essay about common transphobic themes in tv and film, and it never sustained anything more than a surface level analysis for very long. a great watch for like, a high school media class or a totally oblivious cis person.

I learned so much more than i tho i would. Never knew ab the stigma surrounding drag among black men  but i thot that was interesting. Laverne cox is so eloquent. When she talks about the need for more representation so snart

"Disclosure - Hollywoods Bild von Transgender" ist weniger eine wirklich tiefgehende Analyse, sondern viel mehr Aufklärung für Menschen, die sich noch nie mit dem Thema Transgender auseinandergesetzt haben (und sind wir ehrlich, das sind die meisten).

Erzählt wird "Disclosure - Hollywoods Bild von Transgender" durch Interviews mit teils bekannten und weniger bekannten Persönlichkeiten der Trans-Community, die hier ohne sonderlich viel Form oder gar Chronologie zahlreiche Beispiele aus Film und Fernsehen geben, die vielleicht etwas wahllos wirken, aber doch sehr eindrucksvoll aufzeigen, wie sehr die Film- und Fernsehwelt das Bild von Transmännern und -frauen geprägt hat. Dass diese dabei zumeist falsch dargestellt und sogar verunglimpft werden, hat wohl schon jeder selbst erlebt. Wie diese problematischen Darstellungen das Leben von Transmenschen ungemein schwieriger machen, ist die Kernaussage von "Disclosure - Hollywoods Bild von Transgender".

Wer sich für das Thema interessiert und sich im Hinblick auf seinen eigenen Medienkonsum etwas sensibilisieren will, liegt hier genau richtig.