Dead Name is an anti-transgender media piece about three unaccepting parents of their trans and gender diverse children. Following its release it was banned by Vimeo as hateful content.
Background
Taylor Reece is the director and co-producer. It was produced by Broken Hearted Films, an LLC founded in New York in June 2022 by anti-trans activist and unaccepting parent Tina Traster.
Reece describes the piece as “an intimate portrait of three parents whose lives have been shaken and forever altered because their children have declared (or have been given) a transgender identity.”
The featured parents are Amy, Helen, and Bill. The children are not interviewed to get their side of things. Also in the film are anti-trans activists Stephen Levine and Brandon Showalter.
Release and removal
The piece was on Vimeo for about a month before being pulled. Many anti-trans extremists got involved in promoting the project following its removal, including Brandon Showalter, Oren Amitay, Ben Appel, Peter Boghossian, Alline Cormier,
References
Editors (January 25, 2023). Nobody’s mad about this transphobic doc being yanked from Vimeo… except, of course, transphobes. Queerty https://www.queerty.com/nobodys-mad-transphobic-doc-yanked-vimeo-except-course-transphobes-20230125
Resources
Dead Name (deadnamedocumentary.com)
Vimeo (vimeo.com)
- Broken Hearted Films
- https://vimeo.com/user190656908 (deleted)
- https://vimeo.com/ondemand/deadname (deleted)
Daily Signal (dailysignal.com)
The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/author/taylor-reece/)