Then there were “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling’s controversial comments suggesting that transgender women should not be considered “real” women. Thus, it couldn’t be a timelier week to drop the skillfully assembled, highly enlightening and heartfelt documentary “Disclosure,” which takes an engrossing, smartly contextual look at the history of transgender depictions in film and television. Though the character was not trans-identified, she was an early window into how Cox began to think of herself as a trans person. (It’s estimated here that 80% of Americans do not know a transgender person and, crucially, form their impressions from media depictions.) AdvertisementThe movie stresses that, although things have improved for the transgender community in recent years, there’s still much work to be done.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 18, 2020 20:04 UTC