Do I have a social responsibility to be Tina?

Amanda Riddell
Dec 14, 2024
1 min read

Absolutely not. If the only way I can be part of society is to pretend to be a more passable, more palatable trans person, then society has failed me. There's no ethical or legal obligation to make a Tina movie. Legally speaking, it's simply impossible to use my script without my consent, and ethically I was extremely clear when I pulled the plug on pre-production in early 2023. Nobody signed a contract with me to deliver that movie, so that's on them.

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Amanda Riddell

Dec 14, 2024

One could argue a moral obligation, but the transphobia that the wannabe producers constantly threw at me removed that obligation.