He was mentored by Jacques Derrida, amd his memoir about taking hormones broke new ground. Now, Preciado’s radical cinematic riff on Virginia Woolf’s novel explores a life spent defying the gender binary
n the opening seconds of Orlando: My Political Biography, a shadowy figure in a quiet city street says: “Someone once asked me, ‘Why don’t you write your autobiography?’ And I replied, ‘Becausefucking wrote it for me in 1928.’” The scene takes place in the dead of night, with the silence broken only by the swish of a brush as this speaker pastes up a large gold poster.
It has taken several months to pin Preciado down for an interview, with several cancellations. When we finally settle for a video call, I am expecting him to be uncooperative, but I’m wrong. He answers every question candidly and at essay length, starting with his childhood in the “strongly Catholic, militaristic” city of Burgos in northern Spain.From the age of four, he says, everyone knew he was different. “Even the teachers would refer to boys, girls – and you.
Preciado’s critique of the medicalisation of trans identity extends to psychiatry via a grimly amusing episode in which a waiting room full of Orlandos exchange black-market hormones while waiting to be called in for pointless consultations with a box-ticking psychiatrist who has no understanding that all they really need is to be recognised as having a legitimate case for changing gender.
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