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I Show What Disney Characters Would Look Like As Transgender, Because They Are Equally Great
I'm an Art Director in NYC, and like millions of you I grew up watching Disney movies. I love them and always will as they talk about love, freedom, and transformation.
Growing up, I realized that they don't include a very important category: transgender people. People who more than anyone else know the meaning of and seek for that love, freedom and transformation portrayed by Disney.
So I asked myself: What if the most famous movies were to be told as a transgender story? What if they could use their power and following to help tear down the stigmas and taboos about the LGBTQ community?
I'm using all I employ at my job every day - Photoshop and a design tablet - to (hopefully) allow for this happen. Or at least break the tip of the iceberg.
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Honestly, not impressed with the "change". I'm not sure that cutting their hair, or giving them long hair and eyeliner represents "trans". Most trans folk I've seen before and after pictures of are actually very different looking from their "original" selves and it's very clear from the changes effected that they clearly were whatever gender they thought they were... you only have to look on here for before an after pictures to see it. Their faces change, their eyes change, they were CLEARLY in bodies that had somehow not had in the right hormones/dna kick in in utero.
I only ageee with paranoidandroid on one thing: psuedo science really needs to go. Anyone's body will change under hormone treatment. It has nothing to do with having 'the right' hormones or dna kick (wtf) in utero. If we truly want to understand the origin of transgender people, and the science behind it, we need to let go of superstitious notions that they are somehow less validated if it turns out to be some chemical imbalance or due to hormones in our food and drinking water. Not saying that is how it is, but you have to be open to options and still accept them for who they are regardless of the outcome! Science does not function when people get in the way with their butt hurt. From both sides.
Load More Replies...Why is it so taboo to state that a trans person suffers from mental illness? The Mayo Clinic defines mental illness as such: "Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior." I don't have a single negative feeling toward the trans community, but these people clearly suffer from mental illness. Just because it isn't a dangerous one (such as the sociopath), doesn't change the correlation. Can we stop glorifying mental illness? Please?
Sociopathy isn't per definition dangerous. I don't often say this but please stop with the arm chair psychology.
Load More Replies...Honestly, not impressed with the "change". I'm not sure that cutting their hair, or giving them long hair and eyeliner represents "trans". Most trans folk I've seen before and after pictures of are actually very different looking from their "original" selves and it's very clear from the changes effected that they clearly were whatever gender they thought they were... you only have to look on here for before an after pictures to see it. Their faces change, their eyes change, they were CLEARLY in bodies that had somehow not had in the right hormones/dna kick in in utero.
I only ageee with paranoidandroid on one thing: psuedo science really needs to go. Anyone's body will change under hormone treatment. It has nothing to do with having 'the right' hormones or dna kick (wtf) in utero. If we truly want to understand the origin of transgender people, and the science behind it, we need to let go of superstitious notions that they are somehow less validated if it turns out to be some chemical imbalance or due to hormones in our food and drinking water. Not saying that is how it is, but you have to be open to options and still accept them for who they are regardless of the outcome! Science does not function when people get in the way with their butt hurt. From both sides.
Load More Replies...Why is it so taboo to state that a trans person suffers from mental illness? The Mayo Clinic defines mental illness as such: "Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior." I don't have a single negative feeling toward the trans community, but these people clearly suffer from mental illness. Just because it isn't a dangerous one (such as the sociopath), doesn't change the correlation. Can we stop glorifying mental illness? Please?
Sociopathy isn't per definition dangerous. I don't often say this but please stop with the arm chair psychology.
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