This week’s film, Disclosure , centered on the history and hardships that transgender persons have had in the United States. The film highlighted how media portrayals of the transgender community have changed since the 1920’s and the struggles that still remain to this day. (Photo Credit: pexels.com) Since the start of filmmaking, transgender people have been highlighted on the screen but sadly as the butt of the joke. Used as jesters and deviants, comic relief, or as people who did not quite fit in, the transgender community was sidelined and in most of the United States, criminalized. As the film described, transgender people in the media were often portrayed as villains or victims. Alfred Hitchcock often had the murderer in his story as a cross dressing person. Films like Silence of the Lambs , The Crying Game , and Dressed to Kill all have cross dressing characters who are the villains. The film brings to the forefront that because over 80% of Americans do not know a transgend...
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