New Film “Adam” is the Most Transphobic, Lesbophobic Film In Decades

Phaylen Fairchild
4 min readJul 19, 2019

How was this feature film made in 2019?

The feature film “Adam” is due to hit theaters on August 14th, much to the dismay of transgender folks and lesbians everywhere. Based on the controversial book by Ariel Schrag and directed by “Transparent” alum Rhys Ernst, the film, according to IMDB, the film “Tells the story of awkward teen Adam, who spends his last high school summer with his big sister and throws himself into NYC’s lesbian and trans activist scene. In this coming-of-age comedy, Adam and those around him encounter love, friendship and hard truths.”

That’s a heavily sanitized version of what viewers are about to see. Adam is a cisgender male who discreetly watches his older lesbian sister have sex. Adam then decides to pretend to be a transgender man and integrates himself into the LGBTQ community, intent on seducing unaware lesbians into having sex with him.

In his new disguise, currying both favor and support from real LGBT young people, Adam meets a kind-hearted lesbian who he engages in sex with- by taping down his penis with an ace bandage and wearing a strap-on.

It gets worse; During another sexual encounter with his new girlfriend who believes he is a female-to-male trans person, Adam removes the strap-on during sex and engages in…

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Phaylen Fairchild

Actor, Filmmaker, LGBTQ+ & Women’s Rights Activist All work copyright phaylens@gmail.com