In the 60s and the 90s, the media trained us to make fun of trans people (e.g. film “Mrs. Doubtfire”, 1993: Robin Williams is dressed as a woman to be hired as a babysitter for his children), to be afraid of them (e.g. film “Psycho”, 1960: the serial killer is a psychopath that dresses as a woman), or to aggressively out them (e.g. film “Ace Ventura”, 1996: Jim Carrey tears off a colleague’s clothes in public to show that she’s not a “real woman”, and all the people who slept with her throw up at the same time).
Nowadays, representation is rising. In the series “Orange is the new black” (2013–2019), the transgender actress Laverne Cox plays the role of Sophia Burset, a woman sent to prison for credit card fraud. The actor Elliot Page did his trans coming out in 2020. The make-up artist Nikkie Tutorial came out as trans to her fans in 2020 following some threats, and her coming out video was seen more than 38 million times.