why do people keep saying "i saw the tv glow" is about being trans and transitioning
it isn't
So, the movie where the main character's real self is a woman and the only way for the main character to get saved from slowly suffocating to death is to go back to their real self isn't about being trans, actually. Yeah, so the movie where the main character (a supposed man) is made to repress liking "girly" things and one of the repressed memories is them trying on a dress is not about the trans experience. Hey, so, the movie where there's constant overlays between the image of Owen and Isabel is not about the trans experience. “I found my heart. Isabel, oh my God I found yours, too. And it was still beating." wasn't actually about a trans woman, even though Tara called her Isabel, specifically. The cut off on becoming the *man* of the house to *functional adult* wasn't actually about not identifying with being a man. "I saw the TV glow" is ABSOLUTELY not about a trans woman and the horror of surviving in the closet instead of transitioning and actually living. And also, the parachute in the very beginning having the trans colours plus purple (which is a mix of all of them) is just there for shits and giggles.
(Sarcasm aside, the only possible way I can think of for you to interpret this movie as anything other than a trans and transition-centred story is that you interpreted it as something that applies to other queer people as well, which it does. Tara is not trans, she is a lesbian. And also in the TV show. So yes other queer experiences are also part of it, it's not sorely about Isabel. But this is *her* story. So it's mainly centred around the trans experience. The same way Everything Everywhere All at Once is also about the chaos of falling down the rabbit hole of "what if's" but it's mostly about the relationship between Joy and Evelyn
The main character's "real self" is not inside the glowing television and I don't know how to explain this any other way
