Shoot, Jazz is piling up more frequent flyer miles than I am so far this year. If I can get to Philly from here for the upcoming Philadelphia Trans Health Conference I'll finally get an opportunity to meet her and her mom sionce they are scheduled to do a panel discussion there and I'm penciled in for one on Saturday.
Jazz's latest trip was to Los Angeles for the GLAAD Media Awards. While she was on stage she made the call for Hollywood to do a better job of trans representation on the large and small screens.
She also had this MTV interview about her recent experience.
But back to riffing on the lack of trans visibility on the big and small screens. Lord knows I've talked about that subject on the blog a few times and especially lack of realistic trans POC characters.
There's also the irritating tendency of Hollywood producers to cast cis women or gay men to play trans women when there are trans women of all ethnic backgrounds and age ranges working in Hollywood and eager to play some realistic trans roles.
If y'all can't come up with them, e-mail me and I'll come up with some ideas for you to build realistic trans characters for a 10% cut of the profits for starters. And with the reality that transkids are transitioning as early as 5 and 6 or in their early teen years, that adds more chances to tell trans stories.
Jazz's mom Jeannette recently sent me a tweet congratulating me for being named to the inaugural Trans100 list and being an inspiration to many people. I thanked her and noted that Jazz is one my inspirations and thanked her and jazz for being role models for trans teens and transkids that don't have a voice yet.
The transkids and transteens are one of the reasons I continue to fight for trans human rights coverage here and around the world.
It's really about the kids like Jazz. We trans adults and our allies not only need to be good role models for our trans younglings, we need to be fighting tooth and nail with every fiber of our beings to do what we can to leave a better world for them.
Moni's stepping off her electronic soapbox now. Enjoy the video
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