The character Bex is a transgender woman who discusses whether or not LGBTQ people should be sympathetic to those "who enact policies to erase them."
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the DesertĬult Australian film starring Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce as drag queens and Terence Stamp as a trans woman. A boxer is "knocked out", then wakes up realizing she is a woman. Likely the first French trans film, by director René Gaveau. Enjoying the experience a little too much, he agrees to accept the invitation of a soldier to attend a dance at the base, risking exposure. At the suggestion of a woman named Alice, he meets while exploring the countryside nearby, he disguises himself as her sister to escape detection. Ī British soldier deserts his unit during WWII. Ī drama film about a midwestern factory worker and closeted trans woman, who stuns her wife of 25 years, revealing that she wishes to have sex reassignment surgery, and changing her name to Ruth. Īngela Baker (portrayed by Felissa Rose in the first and fourth installments and Pamela Springsteen in the second and third), the killer and main character of the series, is a trans woman. This was another way to escape." This means that Bill is a Bisexual trans woman. He loathed himself - he wanted to transform himself so that there was no sense of him in the 'new' him becoming a woman.that was his method of doing it.He wished he was a woman not because he always wanted to be a woman. ĭirector Jonathan Demme said about the character: "He didn't wish to be another gender.He didn't really have a sexual preference. Yuji, the novelist's assistant, is a transgender man.īrazilian film about a transgender girl who moves to the countryside. Ī drama about a teenage trans boy who struggles with his mother and grandmother to get approved for hormone replacement therapy.
The movie received much media attention when its star Hilary Swank, who played Brandon, won the Academy Award for Best Actress.Īn adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire that features a trans man in the title role. Ī drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man who was raped and murdered by male friends. He bonds with another trans man, who is a painter, in the same city.Ī queer buddy film written, directed by, and starring trans men. Ī drama about a trans man living in 19th century Dublin and working as a butler. The film has been described as being about a girl who pretends to be a boy or, alternatively, about a transgender boy. Ī French drama about a 10-year-old AFAB child who, after moving with their family to a new neighborhood, introduces themself to their new friends as Mikäel. Ī John Waters comedy featuring a trans man character who gets phalloplasty.
Aggie is a trans man and he bonds with the main character, Anna, who recently broke up with her girlfriend and falls in love with Sadie, later developing an apparent crush on her.Ī drama and tragicomedy which revolves around the romantic relationship between Lukas, a 20-year-old gay trans man who is transitioning from female to male, and a cisgender gay man named Fabio. This is distinguished from animated films with LGBTQ characters, which are not included on this list.Ī comedy about young feminists who spread their message through public art and vandalism. Various live-action films feature either transgender issues as a plot element or have trans men, trans women or non-binary trans characters.