“The stakes have never been higher for trans people in the United States.” That’s the arguable but typically overwrought way in which the Washington Post’s Anne Branigin describes the conditions faced by transgender Americans working in the arts. It’s arguable only insofar as trans issues are today front and center for those in control of America’s commanding cultural heights. It is overwrought because, as the author admits in that same paragraph, the stakes are not, in fact, all that high:
All this “visibility,” which Branigin concedes could be reasonably interpreted as “a reflection of increasing acceptance and understanding,” is a double-edged sword because it has been accompanied by “increased vulnerability.” After a grind through paragraph after paragraph expounding the indignities imposed on the trans community by the “cis” creatives who depict them, we finally learn what one of those vulnerabilities is: “timidity.”
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