Found on a blog about Netflix’s Disclosure

I would say trans representation on film isn't bad. My main memories are of The Crying Game, Transamerica and Terence Stamp in Priscilla Queen of the Desert, all hugely positive portrayals.

Showing people dressing up as the other sex for other reasons isn't anti-trans - eg the drag characters in Priscilla, Mrs Doubtfire and Tootsie for example. Nothing to do with trans issues unless you say that telling unrealistic stories and/or pretending it's easy to pass is anti trans.

Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs is not trans. This is stated in the book and the film.

I think The Crying Game's trans character is sympathetic. It's a long time since I've seen it, but doesn't the male character love her anyway?

And Boys Don't Cry is a sympathetic portrayal true story.

So, weird examples to give tbh.

(I've never seen Ace Ventura as I can't stand Jim Carey.)

The films listed did as far as I remember.

Thanks - I have a terrible memory for everything films and I swear I can watch a film twice and swear I’ve not seen it before so I’ll go DuckDuckGo

The films listed did as far as I remember.

From the link, my bold because I don’t understand how women have culturally appropriated transwomen

“The new documentary Disclosure (Netflix) expands on these themes and shows how Hollywood’s white, patriarchal history—replete with gender tropes—has also affected the transgender community. The film shows how clumsy representation of trans and gender-nonconforming people on-screen informs opinions that have real-world safety and economic implications for the one million+ transgender Americans.

GLAAD conducted research showing that in 2019, 82% of Americans reported that they did not personally know any trans people. That leaves the vast majority of Americans to learn about transgender people through what they see on screen—which has ranged from the butt of jokes (Ace Ventura) to people who should not be trusted (The Crying Game) to dangerous criminals (The Silence of the Lambs) to crime victim (Boys Don’t Cry). And when audiences are trained to objectify and dehumanize trans people based on what they see on screen, they can be prone to act on misplaced fears that were sold to them by Hollywood on real human beings. And that creates a culture of violence for trans people, particularly trans women of color.

Featuring Laverne Cox, Candis Cayne, Jen Richards, and more than a dozen transgender artists sharing screen history and first-person testimonials, Disclosure is important viewing for anyone who is passionate about improving gender representation in Hollywood as a step toward culture change. The film is a master class in the entertainment industry’s sexist and racist representations of women, transgender people, and Black men from Hollywood’s earliest days through today. The documentary explores a myriad of transgender representation issues— including the cultural appropriation of trans women by straight, cis women (Madonna & The Kardashians), transmasculine representation, casting decisions, problematic representation in popular shows like The L Word, stealth living, the invasiveness of disclosure, and so much more.“

Also wasn’t aware / can’t remember that the films listed had transgender people / characters in them. Now I do have a terrible memory so could be that, or is this another case of retrospectively adding trans where there was none?