television like transparent, orange is the new black, caitlyn jenner. there's been a popular embracing of the importance of transgender stories which has graced a very different context for the film as well. >> aside from all of that as you set yourself to prepare for this film, what's was the most dau s daunting thing to tackle? >> i think it was capturing the extraordinary nature of this love story. that this wife gerta who has this ability to unflinchingly look at her partner, her husband and see the true identity of her partner and to support the emergence of lily, even if it means risk losing her. in 1920s, the word transgender did not exist. they pathologized it as something that required locking