Dylan Vade

Overview

Dylan Vade co founder of the Transgender Law Center is currently working on transgender law from a different angle film. At the Transgender Law Center he found that regardless of why a transgender person went to court there was a high likelihood that the case would hinge on the size and shape of the person s genitals. He found this absurd and insulting. People were denied driver s licenses health insurance employment and even murdered because someone else had a rigid idea of what genitals are supposed to look like. As such he wanted to change people s minds and open their hearts and to do so with humor. In 2006 he started a small non profit project called Trannymals (www.trannymals.com) that makes educational films that celebrate all bodies and expose absurd legal practices. Their short films Trannymal and Trannymals Go To Court have screened in over 15 countries. In 2006 Trannymal won the Best Transgender Short Film Award in Hamburg Germany s LGBT Film Festival and was part of the Best of Fest in Washington D.C. s International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.