an unnamed casting director once gave sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen this reason for why Asian-Americans are so egregiously underrepresented: in a statement regarding Mutua's decision, "His consistent efforts to erase the narratives of queer people are sanctioned by the government, because the Kenyan government’s position has remained that queerness is a non-issue despite the continued harassment, discrimination and violence towards LGBTIQ individuals living in Kenya." Adorable and complex, their love is also somewhat unprecedented onscreen. Though trans representation isslowly, slowly (emphasis on slowly) improving to being tried and sentenced as adults, while activist groups, such as the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents, in New York, which advocated for a better method of handling "juvenile delinquency", resulting in the creation ofthe New York House of Refuge