When I was young I saw transgender characters in films or television shows, and they were inherently tragic, or they were a joke, or a victim, or - most typically - pyschopathic serial killers. Those kind of characters reflect the dominant narrative in our culture about difference. Difference is something to fear. Difference is something to laugh at. Difference, most importantly, is something that divides. [...] I wanted to tell a different story about difference. I wanted to tell a story in which difference was not something that set us apart from each other, it was actually fundamentally the thing that united us. Because difference is the one thing that we all have in common.
Lana Wachowski on Sense8, transgender representation and difference (x)
