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How Trans Coming-of-Age Comedy ‘She’s the He’ Plays on Locker Room Hysteria to Tackle the ‘Fear Around Every Corner’ of the Trump Era
'She's the He' director Siobhan McCarthy discusses their trans coming-of-age movie and the 'painful' experience of making it during the 2024 election.
McCarthy finished the first draft of “She’s the He” just a few days later, and by July, they were shooting the film with a cast and crew that was almost entirely made up of trans, nonbinary and queer people — including all of the background actors. A lot of trans men, through lived experience, have a nuanced understanding of what it means to engage with some of the toxicity that can be thrust upon cis boys, and that allows them to play in that field with a little more lucidity. I would be lying to myself if I didn’t admit that there is a bug in the back of my brain saying that I need to stop telling trans stories, that I need to get quiet, that I need to put the references to transness in allegory or in something that only the community is going to see.
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