Trans power on screen: Lars Fellows, Alex Thomas-Smith and Jordan Gray on fighting politics with culture (EXCLUSIVE)

Lars Fellows, Alex Thomas-Smith and Jordan Gray (Images: Francisco Gomez de Villaboa)

Eleven years on from the ‘transgender tipping point’ — a term coined by Time magazine when it featured Laverne Cox on its cover, and a moment of self-visualisation and representation for many a trans person — the scales still seem desperately unbalanced for trans and non-binary people. Despite the strides of progress within entertainment, socially, politically and economically, trans people have been at the mercy of an evolving and organised conservatism that has taken hold in the UK and the US. With a sense of uncompromising pride and moral certainty, both the previous Conservative and current Labour government and the Trump administration’s time in power have put trans people’s lives in the cross hairs.

Jordan Gray (Images: Francisco Gomez de

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