I just finished the second season of Pose, on Netflix, and it came to mind that after watching some of the transexual transgender actors on the show were no longer transgender/ transexuals but just shes. I forgot, after episodes, that I wasn't watching a female actress on screen. Which makes me wonder, what everyone's big issues with the LGBT community is. I watched Paris Is Burning years ago at college in an anthropology class and it struck me how difficult the struggle of everyone is, but especially those who are marginalized by society. And those that are a combination of things/people marginalized by society. There is a scene where a kinky sex worker (mistress) is with a client who likes to be blindfolded and locked up for days on end and he says something like, "I love being left alone, I love wondering if anyone will come and find me." The mistress then comments back, "you live a luxurious life. You have the luxury of choosing to be alone. Most people don't get that opportunity."
It makes me sad to think about how many people have been criticized, beat up, killed, tormented their entire lives for being different. I really get sad sometimes looking around in the world I live in and wondering when real change will actually come? When people will be allowed to be who they are, who they want to be, love who they want to love... take a minute and think about what someone struggles may actually be, or what someone could actually be dealing with. No one's life is easy.
