She maintains that being a “Bond girl” is one of her many lifelong achievements. Despite the adverse reactions she received around the time of For Your Eyes Only, Cossey is proud of her Bond connection. Cossey appeared in For Your Eyes Only nearly forty years ago. However, during our Zoom conversation (me at home in the middle of the UK and Spencie over 4000km away in Nova Scotia, Canada), we discussed ‘transgender Bond girl’ Caroline Cossey. The world deserves a transgender Bond girl.”Īs we all know, trans representation within the Bond franchise is almost non-existent.
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“It would be a breakthrough moment I think: a positive portrayal of a trans person in a movie as mainstream as Bond. She has clearly thought a lot about this. Everything else fits within the nearly 60-year-old formula. The only unconventional element (for a Bond movie) is the story’s portrayal of aspects of Bond’s childhood. With a little encouragement, Spencie tells me the whole story she has worked out. And then she tells me she sort of already has. After all, she works in the media industry, she is a proud trans woman and she knows her Bond. I suggest to Spencie that she perhaps write a trans-inclusive Bond story herself. Beyond advancing public perceptions, by including LGBTQIA+ characters in any mainstream film series - Bond being the quintessential example - you open up new and intriguing story possibilities. What the world needs right now are representations of queer people on screen that are not just tokenistic, especially trans people. We had a long talk about our favourite Bond girls, why she found them so inspiring when she was transitioning and what it would be like to have a trans person finally take a leading role in a Bond film.
Spencie d’Entremont is proud to describe herself as a trans Bond girl and nobody does it better than her when it comes to Bond girl fashion.
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