Stories about trans people are often about them “living their truth” — or framed as if they're hiding truths. This fixation on truth is a burden for trans folks, gp_jls and chasejoynt tell bmluse on NPRItsBeenAMin. Listen to Jules lay it out:
What Agnes represented, and what the new case files revealTalk to me about these transcripts that the film is based around. What was the significance of that discovery?You know, we've had this story of Agnes, the young trans woman who went to UCLA, for a long time. Her story has been told both in medical and research communities and in trans communities.
And in some ways, Jules arrives as our most trusted interlocutor, someone who is reaching toward the audience to say,"Grab my hand, I'm going to walk with you and help you interpret some of the things that are happening." But what Jules is also doing is holding me to account.
But here we are in 2022, and there's been this intense investment in the idea of Black trans women as if they are our culture's redemption. That because they are the most oppressed, the liberation we're apparently promising them will be our deliverance. I think it's incredibly condescending. It drives me up the wall. Black trans women have faced this staggering cultural and political problem for a long time.
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