Directed by trans filmmaker Sam Feder, Disclosure looks at changing images of trans people in Hollywood and their real-life experiences.

As we all continue dedicating moments to self-educate on social injustice issues, what better time to continue said education on the transgender experience? Thankfully, Netflix's new documentary Disclosure offers a lesson in the power of storytelling through the LGBTQ+ community.

Disclosure: Sam Feder’s documentary surveys trans representation in film and TV. It’s a history wrought with painful caricatures, cruel punchlines and dubious erasure. But it’s also a joyful, celebratory journey that chronicles the increasing presence of trans actors and filmmakers in Hollywood.

Disclosure analyzes the depiction of trans people in media, going back to the earliest days of cinema. Director Sam Feder has assembled an incredible group of trans actors, filmmakers, historians and advocates, including Laverne Cox, Candis Cayne, Trace Lysette, Alexandra Billings, Jen Richards, Yance Ford, Lilly Wachowski and more to speak about the representation of trans people in media.

A spiritual descendant of films like The Celluloid Closet and Ethnic Notions, Disclosure lays out the history of trans representation in media, from early black-and-white films to the exploitation seen on Jerry Springer talk shows to revolutionary television moments like Pose and Transparent.

As executive producer, transgender icon Laverne Cox has made an affirmative history for the trans community and an eye-opening Netflix documentary for everyone else. Disclosure does nothing less that take an up close and very personal look at Hollywood’s — and everyone else’s — century-plus representations of trans people and considers the impact.

The feminists Gloria Steinem and S. Mona Sinha say the administration’s new rule erases trans people’s civil right to health care.

Disclosure, the new Netflix documentary directed by Sam Feder and executive produced by Laverne Cox, examines the history of transgender visibility from the earliest days of cinema to TV’s current scripted dramas — and how that has evolved over decades.

Disclosure principally looks at the depiction of transgender people in movies and television, from films like "Dog Day Afternoon" and "The Crying Game" to afternoon talk shows that exploited the issue and latenight comedy that made fun of it, with hosts often asking what interview subjects describe as wince-inducing questions.

Laverne Cox’s new documentary Disclosure, about trans representation on screen, arrives at a pivotal time. “We’re more targeted because we’re more visible.”

Trans film history — like all film histories — is one filled with contradictions, and Disclosure succeeds by making these contradictions its subject. The movie doesn’t split representation into simple categories of good and bad, nor does it discuss intersections of race, gender, and class as mere asterisks. They are the entire point.

The Netflix documentary Disclosure is an unvarnished look at the historical arc of transgender depictions in film and television. It is a brutally aware snapshot of how Hollywood shapes popular opinion, and in doing so stokes the fires of gender and sexual orientation anxieties that can lead to real-time violence.

“I think we can Google ‘Laverne Cox’ and see how often I respond to individuals,” says actress and activist Laverne Cox, whose new documentary on trans visibility Disclosure will release next week on Netflix.

Director Sam Feder’s Disclosure, which world premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is an ambitious, ground-breaking and nuanced examination of over one hundred years of trans representation on screen.

Laverne Cox appears in the new trailer for Disclosure, a Netflix documentary on transgender representation in film and television, out June 19th in celebration of LGBTQ Pride month.

The Netflix documentary tracks the history of trans representation in media and how that representation influenced the world's perception of trans people.

Trans representation matters, but it wasn't too long ago that a statement like this would be met with resistance. Presently, trans men and women are murdered at a disproportionate rate and people with massive platforms spew transphobic comments on a seemingly regular basis. Netflix offers up a history lesson in the power of trans storytelling for its forthcoming documentary, Disclosure, the trailer of which was released on Friday.

The groundbreaking performer followed her seven-season run on Orange Is the New Black (a role that earned her three Emmy nominations, a first for a trans performer) with appearances on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. She'll next appear in Netflix's Inventing Anna and is an executive producer of the Sundance doc Disclosure, debuting June 19 on Netflix.

Laverne Cox, an Emmy winner, is an executive producer of the upcoming documentary Disclosure, premiering on Netflix on June 19.