Jaleesa M. Jones

USA TODAY

Let Hari Nef be 100% Transparent: She is not here to be your inspiration porn.

The trans model-actress, best known for playing Gittel on Amazon's original series, recently opened up about being treated as such during an interview with Dazed magazine.

"It’s such (expletive)," she says of the "free" label that’s often tossed around in conversations with her. "Calling me 'free' because you think I’m your (expletive) 'beacon' of gender because I don’t look like what you thought a woman looks like, or what a model should look like."

"I’m just doing my thing – being me – and when some PR girl comes up and tells me how beautiful or free I am in the most patronizing way possible, I just think, ‘OK you’ve now made me self-conscious, you’ve once again drawn my attention to the very things that actually inhibit that.'"

Nef says the modeling and acting circuits are generally guilty of drawing excessive attention to her experience as a trans woman — as if that was the sole defining aspect of her identity. Or her art.

It's sensationalism, Nef explains. The kind that's curiously reserved for trans women.

"I do wonder when I won’t have to, y’know, sing for my supper with all the inspirational stuff," she says. "It’s not that I am ungrateful, I’m not – but my focus is on being a great model or (on) giving a terrific performance as an actress and I’ll work incredibly hard. But you don’t get Gigi Hadid – who I love by the way – having to recount parts of a traumatic psychological history on camera as part of her job."