Narrated by ex-British serviceman and trans-gendered host Abigail Austin, My trans American road trip follows the plight of trans-gendered American citizens as they try to keep their LGBT protection rights. Something as trivial as going to a restroom while keeping your dignity shouldn't be an issue and definitely shouldn't be stigmatized but following the bathroom bill it has become yet another barrier of divide for the perhaps 'un- United' States.
Abigail Austen starts her journey in the state of North Carolina which first passed the proposed bathroom bill - a law stating that transgender individuals have to use the gender restroom of the gender in which they were born and is published on their birth certificate. Abigail meets with a plethora of pro-bill individuals - most of which were conservative and fundamentalist Christians spouting hateful and intolerant views of LGBTs. Maybe the most disgusting interview within this expository documentary is an interview with a pair of highly successful twin property developer brothers - who claim they only regret their decision to publicly support the bathroom bill because of the financial decay their business suffered as a result. Many of the interviews we witness in this documentary are sickening and frankly hard to stomach, but we do get a chuckle when Abigail visits the ladies in a church where the pastor swears no transgender will ever use the female toilets in his parish as long as he is alive. This documentary echoes to us how ignorance can be so dangerous for those are misunderstood.
With Trump now announced to be president elect following his shocking US presidential election victory, the audience are only left to fear how else Trump will let the LGBT community be victimized, ostracized and degraded. God bless America - they need it.
Abigail Austen starts her journey in the state of North Carolina which first passed the proposed bathroom bill - a law stating that transgender individuals have to use the gender restroom of the gender in which they were born and is published on their birth certificate. Abigail meets with a plethora of pro-bill individuals - most of which were conservative and fundamentalist Christians spouting hateful and intolerant views of LGBTs. Maybe the most disgusting interview within this expository documentary is an interview with a pair of highly successful twin property developer brothers - who claim they only regret their decision to publicly support the bathroom bill because of the financial decay their business suffered as a result. Many of the interviews we witness in this documentary are sickening and frankly hard to stomach, but we do get a chuckle when Abigail visits the ladies in a church where the pastor swears no transgender will ever use the female toilets in his parish as long as he is alive. This documentary echoes to us how ignorance can be so dangerous for those are misunderstood.
With Trump now announced to be president elect following his shocking US presidential election victory, the audience are only left to fear how else Trump will let the LGBT community be victimized, ostracized and degraded. God bless America - they need it.