A Trans Woman’s Struggle for Acceptance | Two-Spirit | The New Yorker Screening Room

For Georgina, an Indigenous transgender woman, life in the desert is lonely and cruel, as revealed in a documentary by Mónica Taboada Tapia.
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[@r0sebust]

Hello everyone, I'm the producer of the short film. I've read every comment and want to thank you for your suggestions, love, and even the critiques. Georgina had the opportunity to watch the short film before its world premiere at film festivals, and she loved it; she was the first viewer. She smiled and expressed herself in Spanish, saying "bonito." I will make sure to convey all your kind messages to her. For those who are interested in knowing more about Georgina, we are currently working on a feature film titled "Soul of the Desert." Her whole story is truly something the world needs to know.

[@lukeoliveira2492]

So you’re Mónica Taboada? Doesn’t really seem like it by looking at your profile

[@r0sebust]

​@@lukeoliveira2492 Hi 👋 I'm the producer, Mónica is the director.

[@r0sebust]

@@lukeoliveira2492 I’m the producer. Mónica es the director.

[@r0sebust]

@@lukeoliveira2492 I am the producer, Mónica is the director.

[@BrennaCorbit]

As a transwoman, I find this documentary very touching, very sad. I hope things go better for Georgina. She is a strong beautiful woman living in a harsh world. I know the pain and fear of hiding and coming out. I found mostly love, very little hate. I have been very lucky but things grow worse in my own country. People just need to see us as people, to get to know us. In doing so, they will see we are no different.

[@Garbeaux.]

Most do see you as people. It’s the loud obnoxious activists who are harming acceptance. They’re bringing down acceptance of the whole entire acronym.

[@Chthonicgoth]

​@@Garbeaux.What do you mean by activists? I feel like people like you only respect trans people who engage in respectability politics. Why aren't we allowed to advocate for our human rights which are actively being taken away, especially in The US?

[@laurachow8150]

What an absolute QUEEN! Love her and my heart breaks for her. It is everyone's responsibility to make the world better for people like her.

[@emilyflotilla931]

As a proud grandmother of a transgender granddaughter, my heart is with Georgina!

[@johnsmith1474]

Misery loves company.

[@emilyflotilla931]

@@johnsmith1474 👀

[@johnsmith1474]

@@emilyflotilla931 - Emoticonic joker.

[@larkascending]

Mental illness, lifelong drug use, mutilation and castration are nothing to be proud of.

[@miriamsaleh]

@@emilyflotilla931 misery… gender gaga… crime

[@dorianhorton6805]

Who do they think they are? She is elderly, in need, and she doesn't need a headache or problems. She already spends too much time alone...she needs, (as does everyone there needs) others.She doesn't need to be contemplating death!😡

[@Outlawes]

Thankyou for sharing such a powerful story in such a beautiful way ❤

[@alejandro4335]

so beautiful thank you for sharing her story

[@johnsmith1474]

What is beautiful here? Or are you just saying you like the idea that the theme is being shown?

[@realce666]

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[@isheetampancholi]

Lord, does the Music have to be this morbid ? 😀 Only humans are this way. Live n let live ! Our Earth already has enough problems, don't Become one ! Sending Warm Wishes to Georgina 💕

[@danielleapollo6826]

I hope Georgina is safe and the goddess watches and protects her 🤍🤍🤍🥺🤗❤️

[@sensenpen]

I wish I could take her to live with me :( she deserves happiness

[@elizabethhurtado2829]

Tell her I accept her gladly 😘

[@jakevendrotti1496]

Why would they put horror movie music to this story. Bad production decision. This is a normal life. Maybe just not a new yorker in a tux top hat and monocle. Serious "holier than thou for caring to even show it" presentation of a woman's life. They could instead underscore her resilience and the battle to exist that she faces, mostly completely alone.

[@tj-8422]

I think there was an attempt to be overly artistic and, in doing so, the story seemed a bit scattered...

[@pameladaley955]

Yes - the music was ghastly and totally inappropriate to Georgina's story though perhaps appropriate to the film maker's idea of the story!

[@darbyheavey406]

Hardly normal. By definition not normal.

[@starcrib]

Humanity is a miserable endeavor- in every conceivable sector of the planet. The 👥️🎟☄️

[@flexaeterna]

i think so too. i often ask, what purpose do we serve?

[@roechon]

We have so much evolution still to do in Latinamerica. Thank you for this heart touching story, I can see what an amazing woman Gerogina is.

[@bilogtv2904]

How is she now? do u have an update?

[@_pudu661]

The lady who poured water got upset over the lady?!

[@TCJones]

I hope her well runs dry horrible woman.

[@DrachenGothik666]

@@TCJones That's a horrible thing to wish on her, as both families use that well, Georgina and her brother, and the woman who was being cruel. If you look in the credits at the names, it's two families who were shown in this documentary.

[@kriskabin]

Judgy h2o lady was swimming in her h8 infused Transphobia. **Love & learning, not closed minded h8. Reality, humans are wonderfully complex creatures. We come in more than just 2 genders & 1 sexuality, to believe otherwise is keeping some ppl in a dark & limiting world of fantasy.

[@barbarathreecrow8351]

CAN THE MUSIC - THIS IS A PROUD BEAUTIFUL HUMAN BEING- THE OTHERS ARE HUMAN TOO AND CONFUSED, THEY MAKE AMENDS.. THE MUSIC DISTRACTING AND DISTURBING. I WATCHED WITHOUT THE MUSIC. THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE, THE MUSIC IS ABOUT MONSTERS, NONE OF THESE PEOPLE OR GEORGINA ARE MONSTERS.

[@joshalvarado7722]

i love georgina i wish she was my neighbor

[@_pudu661]

No captions?!? Come on PLEASE!! english 🙏🏾🤲