That’s where this falls apart for me.

These girls couldn’t be doing this with the encouragement and support of their parents.

Nope. That's exactly how I felt as I was reading it. You were judging her trans experience by our standards. You sit in a place of privledge where there is remarkable advancements in hormone treatment and surgical procedures. Back then an mtf would have had to get by on a close shave and a 5&dime wig. Do you really…

OK, that last line is total BS and you know it. Secondly, you have GT powers of banning/accepting/posting privileges or whatever you want to call it. Last time I called you out on some eye-rolling nonsense, my posting privileges magically went away over there. Care to explain?

Except that you seem to expect the character to behave as if the entire in-movie universe understands and accepts certain standards that we have today. Certain words carry a lot more pain now than they did 20 or 30 years ago because our society has changed. We are fortunate to live in a time and place where people can…

You voiced your opinion and I voiced my opinion on how you shouldn't judge the accuracy of a fictional story based solely on your own individual experience. It's a free world and I am free to have my own opinion, no? You basically see our differences in opinion as personal attacks, which is not my intention at all…

sounds like her feeling of being mistreated is not rooted in her gender identity but render her inherent personality issues, which has NOTHING to do with her gender.

Because, unsurprisingly, the writer comes from GT where she is some sort of venerated God-like person — and whenever people disagree with her, or call her out on her bullshit, they get banned/greyed/dismissed/attacked. This isn't the first eye rolling nonsense written by this author, and I suspect it won't be the…

This article was just more whiny egoism.....Kat needs to give back her 15 seconds of fame.....

Its the mid to late 80's. I am confused...is the character suppose to act like its 2014?

that's a very cunty thing to do for a so-called journalist.

It's still in the greys because it seems like a lot of selective approval by the author is occurring.

I find it a little hypocritical to call Rayon a collection of tropes rather than a real trans character, and then criticize the character for not reacting to being misgendered. This implies two things about trans people : that we all react to misgendering the same way, and that we all experience gender dysphoria in…

Fully agreed. This No True Scotsmanning of every representation of trans or queer experiences as "not good enough" has got to stop.

Hear hear! Why is this still in the grays?

Sooo he doesn't deserve an Oscar because his character didn't act in the way you'd expect her to? Isn't this implying every trans woman would have the same reactions? I'm sure not everyone is the same, and different personalities *are* allowed, you know.

I disagree with you about Leto's acting (I thought he was superb), but Rayon was HORRIBLY written. It made me so mad that the only LGBT main character in a movie about AIDS was a collection of stereotypes and tropes. And the fact that they kept using masculine pronouns with her was maddening.

Ah the bit about being embarrassed by trans-people like Leto's character is really what was bothering me. POC tend to do the same when a character fits negative stereotypes and it really does show how we feel about certain aspects of our own community. We're so uncomfortable that people like Precious (for example)…

Not all the trans women agree: http://blackiris18.tumblr.com/post/784219327…

Well then I'm tired of movies about slaves/ historical bio pics winning oscars, because hey, they're just telling a story ie doing their job.