The Danish Girl is nonsense. I would know. I was once a transgender woman.
Dr. Camille Cabral, une activiste des Transgenres à une manifestation pour les Trans à Paris en France (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) At times, I felt as if I were trapped in the audience of a never-ending timeshare resort sales pitch. When would the predictable sound bites be over? The Danish Girl is stuffed with fluffy, gooey sentiments designed to convince “homophobic” or “transphobic” heterosexuals that the painful twists and turns of a transgender person’s life are really a healthy and courageous quest to embrace his or her true self. The film overflows with familiar LGBT talking points. At a key moment, the lead character exclaims, “I finally am who I am!” The Danish Girl , based on the novel of the same name by David Ebershoff and directed by Tom Hooper , tells the story of Lilli Elbe , one of the first known recipients of sex-reassignment surgery . The movie stars Eddie Redmayne in the role of Einar Wegener/Lilli Elbe, the emerging transgender female. Alicia Vikander