They came on as associate producers, working in the production, casting and writing departments, as well as helping design the title sequence, which features archival footage from trans moments in history including parts of 1968 film The Queen.
[9] According to The New York Times Magazine, Drucker and Ernst's goal with the show was to ensure that trans people are depicted authentically on screen,[10] including doing research as to the historic distinctions and identities in transgender and cross-dressing communities.
[9] In 2015, Ernst directed This is Me, a series of short documentaries inspired by a line said when the main character in Transparent comes out and executive produced by Soloway.
For the show, he brought on historians and they "worked hard to find the best and most complete stories [with] diversity across race, gender, era and region", but still acknowledged it was quite US-centric.
[16] Before the film was released, Ernst wrote a Medium article about his own apprehension towards receiving the script and thinking it would be offensive, saying he was "pleasantly surprised".
's Sarah Fonseca to Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Fox and His Friends (1975) and Jamie Babbit's But I'm a Cheerleader (2000) because of this negative response from the queer community it aims to represent.
[16] Ernst and critics defend Adam as having a nuance and being a reminder to trans people that life improved significantly in the time between its 2006 setting and 2019 release.
Ernst has claimed that queer audiences at screenings react positively while the response from reviewers online "is so totally disparate and opposite from that.
[16] Hundreds of Twitter and Instagram posts, as well as several Change.org petitions, have called for the film to be boycotted or banned, due to being "deeply transphobic and lesbianphobic".