Directed by trans filmmaker Sam Feder, Disclosure looks at changing images of trans people in Hollywood and their real-life experiences.

As we all continue dedicating moments to self-educate on social injustice issues, what better time to continue said education on the transgender experience? Thankfully, Netflix's new documentary Disclosure offers a lesson in the power of storytelling through the LGBTQ+ community.

Disclosure: Sam Feder’s documentary surveys trans representation in film and TV. It’s a history wrought with painful caricatures, cruel punchlines and dubious erasure. But it’s also a joyful, celebratory journey that chronicles the increasing presence of trans actors and filmmakers in Hollywood.

Disclosure analyzes the depiction of trans people in media, going back to the earliest days of cinema. Director Sam Feder has assembled an incredible group of trans actors, filmmakers, historians and advocates, including Laverne Cox, Candis Cayne, Trace Lysette, Alexandra Billings, Jen Richards, Yance Ford, Lilly Wachowski and more to speak about the representation of trans people in media.

A spiritual descendant of films like The Celluloid Closet and Ethnic Notions, Disclosure lays out the history of trans representation in media, from early black-and-white films to the exploitation seen on Jerry Springer talk shows to revolutionary television moments like Pose and Transparent.

As executive producer, transgender icon Laverne Cox has made an affirmative history for the trans community and an eye-opening Netflix documentary for everyone else. Disclosure does nothing less that take an up close and very personal look at Hollywood’s — and everyone else’s — century-plus representations of trans people and considers the impact.

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Disclosure, the new Netflix documentary directed by Sam Feder and executive produced by Laverne Cox, examines the history of transgender visibility from the earliest days of cinema to TV’s current scripted dramas — and how that has evolved over decades.

Disclosure principally looks at the depiction of transgender people in movies and television, from films like "Dog Day Afternoon" and "The Crying Game" to afternoon talk shows that exploited the issue and latenight comedy that made fun of it, with hosts often asking what interview subjects describe as wince-inducing questions.

Laverne Cox’s new documentary Disclosure, about trans representation on screen, arrives at a pivotal time. “We’re more targeted because we’re more visible.”

Trans film history — like all film histories — is one filled with contradictions, and Disclosure succeeds by making these contradictions its subject. The movie doesn’t split representation into simple categories of good and bad, nor does it discuss intersections of race, gender, and class as mere asterisks. They are the entire point.