Life Behind Bars.The documentarian recalled a conversation he had with Deborah, a transgender woman who started transitioning after being incarcerated.“There’s moments where because of the nature of sensitivities now, and how much more educated we are, the conversation would take place in a different way,” Theroux told UniLad.“I arrive at the cell and I’m told that this person is called Deborah.
And Deborah comes out with long hair and with a kind of traditional feminine affect.“And I say, ‘Do you consider yourself a woman?’ And she says, ‘Yes, I’m a trans woman now.’”He continued: “It is completely in the context of the time, kind of unexceptionable exchange, but now I would have phrased it properly.“‘Do you identify as a woman?’ Or you.