![]() ![]() ![]() “We’re not wallowing in the pain of what it means to be transgender and kind of like how evil people can be - which is true - but we’ve seen a lot of those types of stories and they often have this feeling of exploitation about them,” says Adams, adding that the fact that Tyler is trans influences how he lives in the world, but it doesn’t define his character or this story. He goes on to emphasize that the story is not at all about trans trauma. That is a story that doesn’t get told a lot in any sort of media.” “What’s exciting for me is that players play as Tyler, and they are put into that position, so they have to make decisions about how to respond when somebody says something to you.” He adds, “I can’t think of any other medium where a cisgender person is going to be able to vicariously have that experience, and that’s very powerful to me because that is a big part of what trans people experience as they go about their daily lives and people have reactions to the fact that you’re trans. Tyler’s story resonated with Adams personally because he grew up in a town of 600 people in Illinois and understands the conflict of seeing people who knew you before you fully became yourself and dealing with the varying levels of comfort that are associated with that experience. Since Tell Me Why is not a story of Tyler’s transition, Adams talked with the team about where he was at in his life, his aesthetic appearance, what happened in his past, how he interacts with the people close to him in his hometown and how he chooses to disclose, or not disclose, his transition. “It’s been a really wonderful collaboration working with them to talk through, what kind of human being is Tyler?” Adams, who is trans himself, explains. Along the way, the creative team was guided by Nick Adams, director of transgender representation at GLAAD, who joined the project early on in the script development phase. ![]()
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