Building inclusive products for trans people
<p><strong>In the 60s and the 90s, the media trained us to make fun of trans people</strong> (e.g. film “Mrs. Doubtfire”, 1993: Robin Williams is dressed as a woman to be hired as a babysitter for his children), <strong>to be afraid of them</strong> (e.g. film “Psycho”, 1960: the serial killer is a psychopath that dresses as a woman), <strong>or to aggressively out them </strong>(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).</p>
<p><strong>Nowadays, representation is rising</strong>. 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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOOw2E_qAsE&t=1s&ab_channel=NikkieTutorials" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">her coming out video</a> was seen more than 38 million times.</p>
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