The 'Transgender Tipping Point' In Tv& Film Has Arrived
by The Daily Eye Team April 7 2016, 1:32 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 27 secs"The transgender tipping point," declared TIME’s front cover.29 May, 2014. The pop of champagne bottles, and the electricity of change in the air; never before had the spirit and contributions of the trans community been so felt amongst the currents of mainstream culture.
In film and television, trans narratives were finally shifting to its centre; where before they’d be so often reduced to drained stereotypes and transphobic mockeries, the punch line to a joke or a sinister other in the shadows.