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Is Avatar a Trans-Phobic Movie? Or Merely Staying True to Evolution?

Jan 5th, 2010 | 3 responsesPosted by OIA Staff in Entertainment

avatarisnttransenoughTwo weeks ago, a young transgender Bay Area blogger named Lara called for a nationwide protest against Avatar because, she claimed, the movie ignores “ignores the fact of Evolution. Humans are evolving to be being Transgender, NOT heterosexual.”

While Lara mistakenly confuses gender identity with sexual orientation, she’s hinged her debate on believing the film’s aliens should have all been one all-encompassing gender, instead of that weird male and female set we know of today.

To explore her claim, let’s look into Lara’s three main arguments against the movie.

  1. Avatar assumes that the heterosexual, “male” and “female” attraction will still be the primary relationship basis in the future.
  2. Avatar ignores the fact of Evolution. Humans are evolving to be being Transgender, NOT heterosexual.
  3. Avatar also assumes that intelligent beings on other worlds would be heterosexual.

Hop on over to Queerty to read their argument or discuss your own below.

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  • Time_Lady

    Ignoring the fact that this is science fiction movie…

    The problem with this argument is that the author is assuming that the blue aliens evolved from humans at all. Since they were already on the planet when humans appeared that would say that they evolved from a native species.

    It could be that this species is not evolving the same way as humans. Even their minds connect in different ways then humans.

    Which was I thought the entire point of the movie. Trying to understand other species (cultures) on their own ground, rather than pushing human ideals (which does include sexual orientation, and transgender labels) on them.

    So, it really isn’t staying true to evolution at all.

  • J.J.

    Clearly, ‘Lara’ is an unemployed idiot with WAAAYYYY too much time on his/her hands.

  • Liquescent

    That’s a puzzling argument, and one that makes its author sound discrimination-phobic.

    As a layperson, I have never read of physiological evidence that “Humans are evolving to be being Transgender”.

    That might be true from a sociological standpoint: I might now have a choice of which restroom to use, or who I can kiss in public, but I don’t think I’ll be getting knocked up any time in the future.

    Beyond that, I can’t comment on a movie I haven’t seen: but it is fiction, and tailored for a mass market. Depictions of minority views would limit the appeal. That has nothing to do with a trans-phobic viewpoint…from my trans-friendly viewpoint.

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