(Spoilers for the episode, which first premiered on July 9, 2019 on FX, and is now streaming on Netflix.)
It is also a reflection of the many transgender people who have lost their lives in the decades since.
In 2019, in the wake of the increasing numbers of deaths, the American Medical Association even called the violence against the transgender community an epidemic, stating that transgender women were most at risk.
She got her trophy, she got her 10s across the board [before] finally being laid to rest, Mock says of the fanciful sequence.
It felt like it was a beautiful send-off for us both, Ross adds, before paying tribute to the real transgender women who lives were lost.