Shifts in media production and consumption along with the emergence of digital technologies have facilitated quantitative increases and (per some critics) qualitative improvements in transgender representation across print media, film, and television. 1 The biggest influence on trans media representation has come via social media and other platforms for sharing usergenerated content, which now provide the lion’s share of trans media representations. Unlike those of newspapers, studio films, and broadcast television, however, social media representations are not produced by members of the cisgender majority, for members of the cis majority; they are overwhelmingly trans produced. As such, to critique these digital media representations is not to critique regimes of representational power or the machinations of hegemonic media systems. Rather, it is to critique how transgender people choose to represent themselves and the identities they hold. Studies of trans media thus far have tended to employ perspectives from feminist theory and queer theory to analyze transgender representation. 2