Poll note: If I've missed your identity from those in my poll I apologise, let me know and will try to update. Didn't want to ascribe anyone to an "other" but am aware I may have missed something.
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Recently you may have heard of the Netflix documentary Disclosure. In it it's recognised that 80% of Americans don't personally know someone who's trans. As a result a large amount of the public's perception of trans people's lives and bodies is influenced by the portrayals of us in media and Hollywood. Which, by and large, has been negative and a source of either humour or disgust. This also extends into games, especially this year with the widely anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 which features fetishized images of trans people and transphobic tropes.
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As a result I'm curious as to what this community's relationship with trans people is, and how many people here personally know someone who identifies as trans outside of the internet. I appreciate this will cut off people who know trans people online, but I want to avoid people also taking it to mean knowing Natalie Wynn or having seen trans members on here. I also think it's important to get a sense of how close trans people are ourselves to others within the community, outside of the internet.
If you have Netflix I recommend checking Disclosure out, the trailer is below. There's some good criticism around the 'Netfix bias' it has when mentioning positive representation but I really want to focus on the aspect of it confronting how people have generally been informed by the media and Hollywood over the years, and how this has led to a lot of the transphobic sentiment we see today.
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Recently you may have heard of the Netflix documentary Disclosure. In it it's recognised that 80% of Americans don't personally know someone who's trans. As a result a large amount of the public's perception of trans people's lives and bodies is influenced by the portrayals of us in media and Hollywood. Which, by and large, has been negative and a source of either humour or disgust. This also extends into games, especially this year with the widely anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 which features fetishized images of trans people and transphobic tropes.
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As a result I'm curious as to what this community's relationship with trans people is, and how many people here personally know someone who identifies as trans outside of the internet. I appreciate this will cut off people who know trans people online, but I want to avoid people also taking it to mean knowing Natalie Wynn or having seen trans members on here. I also think it's important to get a sense of how close trans people are ourselves to others within the community, outside of the internet.
If you have Netflix I recommend checking Disclosure out, the trailer is below. There's some good criticism around the 'Netfix bias' it has when mentioning positive representation but I really want to focus on the aspect of it confronting how people have generally been informed by the media and Hollywood over the years, and how this has led to a lot of the transphobic sentiment we see today.
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