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For this text review assignment, I am going to discuss the acceptance of transgender in society by sharing a Taiwanese movie Miss Andy . The background of Miss Andy was set in Malaysia where the state law enforced prohibiting “a male person posing as a woman”, hence prosecuting people whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned to them at birth. Miss Andy describes a transgender male: Evon and her struggles of being accepted by her own family and creating her own family. Evon did her transgender surgery after her wife died, but was rejected by her kids. One night, Evon met and help a woman Sophie and her kids who did not have food and a house to stay. At that time, Evon was also attracted to a man Tank who was her ex-co-workers and had hearing impaired, and getting along with these three imperfect people seems to give Evon a hopeful life again. However, after Tank knew about Evon’s winning lottery ticket, he stole it and escape with Sophie and her son, leaving Evon alone.
The injustice elements were highlighted by the challenges and discrimination that Evon faced- not accepted by the society and her right to have warmth and love from family. In fact, Malaysia government has law enforcement on not recognizing transgender on identity cards, which prevent most of the transgender individuals to get a official job, and they only can work under market that increase their risk in threat. Those contrains on law increase the stereotypes in the society that prevent transgender people’s rights to live a normal life. The one and the other concept that we talked in class relates to Evon’s situation. From the depiction of the movie, Sophie, Tank, and Evon were all recognized as other from the society. However, at the end of the movie, the escape of Sophie and Tank highlight that Evon is the only other in this movie. From this aspect, even though these three people are all imperfect, Sophie and Tank are still physically recognized as the One; thus the one and the other concept can be applied in self recognition, mentally, and physical appearances.