“Trans Memoria” director Victoria Verseau is ready for “Trans Love.” The second part of the planned trilogy about her transition, it will be a fictionalized take on the life-changing trip she took in her twenties. “I decided to go on a road trip in the U.
S. and hitchhike for three months. By myself! I’ve never heard of hitchhiking trans girls and it was an extremely dangerous adventure, but I was young and naïve.
I am glad I was, because I have experienced the most wonderful things. And the most terrible things,” she says. “Back then, I just started taking hormones.
I didn’t know how I would be perceived by others: as a gay boy, trans person or as a woman? But I longed for love, and sex. My friends were losing their virginities and my life was on hold. This trip turned into my own sexual revolution.
” Verseau, who will be casting in the fall, will reveal her “biggest secrets” in the film. “I met so many straight cis men on this trip. I met religious people, racist people, transphobic people.
And I slept with them,” reveals the Swedish filmmaker. “It could have ended badly and sometimes I wonder how close I got to winding up like so many other trans women – murdered. It’s fine if this film makes the audience uncomfortable.
I don’t mind if it’s scandalous.” Her journey culminated in San Francisco, where Verseau had facial feminization surgery. Now, she relives the realities of her painful transition in doc “Trans Memoria,” premiering.
