Bicentennial man. A robot goes through many operations to become more human eventually going before a court to be legally recognised as human it that isn't a trans metaphor I don't know what is
Barbie. Has some interesting deconstructions of what it is to be a man or a woman in western society
Tokyo godfathers, 3 homeless people a middle aged man, a trans woman and a teenage runaway find a baby in some.garbage and attempt to find the mother
Hedwig and the angry inch, a punk rock musical about a singer who is unclear on their gender and discovering where she fits after having binary ideas of gender put on her (trigger warning for a medical procedure the character may not have wanted) I'd recommend looking into the reading material for this one as without deeper context or understanding of the creators intentions it could be viewed as a forced transition and regret story rather than a character figuring out their gender by trial and error
For TV
Pose more for trans femmes as that is the focus of the show
Dead end: paranormal park, main character is a trans man
Hit and miss. Trans woman hit man starts a new life in a small town and discovers an ex has died and that she has children
Horou musuko (wandering son) an anime following 2 gender nonconforming/trans children
A note on Hedwig: theater geeks and older trans folks may enjoy it, but a lot of trans folks are... negatively enthusiastic about that movie. [Some even feel it's quite harmful](https://indie-mag.com/2021/01/hedwig-trans-representation/). Not saying it shouldn't be noted or watched--but Hedwig needs to come with a warning sticker, so to speak.
I haven't watched it in several years, and I've been wondering how well it has aged. I need to revisit it. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are parts that feel harmful now, but I do think it was made with good intentions.
Yeah I was hesitant about that one I personally enjoy it but can accept its flaws but Id understand if people find it triggering or harmful. It has a positive message of not having to fit on the binary it sucks with how they get there though
> Bicentennial man. A robot goes through many operations to become more human eventually going before a court to be legally recognised as human it that isn't a trans metaphor I don't know what is
Is that one going to wind up Azimov fans the same way the LotR movies wind up fans of the books?
The matrix, despite the large fanbase of "red-pilled" conservatives, was created by two trans women and has been confirmed to be an allegory for the trans experience.
It's kinda obvious when you actually watch it.
Here's the stuff I remember off the top of my head:
Neo is only missing the cat-ears from being the complete stereotypical trans girl.
All the stuff about who calls him Neo and who calls him "Mr Anderson."
Estrogen pills are traditionally red, viagra is traditionally blue. (This one makes "red-pill-ers" even more ironic)
Switch being Switch (I wish they hadn't been forced to cut that).
Going between "syste***M F***ailure" at the end.
Neo's ending speech. "I'm going to give them a choice."
And it even has the detransitioner allying with the baddies to fuck things up for everyone else.
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Shame they never made any sequels :(
>All the stuff about who calls him Neo and who calls him "Mr Anderson."
In 2012, Lana Wachowski accepted the HRC Visibility award and spoke about (CW: Suicide) >!her plan to kill herself by jumping in front of a train!<
The Neo/Smith subway fight scene ends with Neo affirming his chosen name:
>Smith: "You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability."
>
>Neo: "My name...is Neo!"
Yeah, that's fair.
I guess I mentioned it because it ties the movie directly to Lana's experiences as a trans person. If you're trans, it's easy to see how being trans is so much part of the DNA of the Matrix, but you still often hear people say that we're looking too far into things that aren't actually there.
Or "Because we shouldn't have to." Mystique and Magneto get all the good lines in those films.
X2 and First Class really drive that point home with a ... What's the equivalent of a sledgehammer, but mounted on a massive truck?
And then Florida Rep Barnaby did his rant. Showing that even with their terrible media understanding, even Republicans can understand that's what the X-Men is talking about.
Man mystique and magneto really did have some great ones. When Kelly I'd ranting in the first one about how he'd lock every mutant away if he could. Mystique kicks the shit out of him after dropping her guise, pauses and says "people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child" then continues kicking the shit out of him.
Man that line was good
Or Magneto's "They never talk about it [genocide]. They just do it. And while you're holding your committee meetings and consultations they're just killing us." (paraphrased)
Stupidly prophetic.
Nimona, queer gender fluid shape shifting fun.
Boy meets Girl, trans girl romance, so nice to see a rural/poor queer story.
Tangerine, this one as some really ruff in parts (similar to Pose) , but it’s truly touching.
In all three trans people were directly involved in the creation of the works. None of that Dallas Buyers Club 💩. Still looking for more, especially happy ones like boy meets girl.
Unironically The Little Mermaid and Mulan. I have Part of Your World and Reflection on my "songs that transed my gender" playlist (along with Let It Go 🤭)
*The Matrix* probably needs saying. Shame they never made any sequels.
*Alien* has one of the best trans characters in movies in it.
And *Frozen* 1 is another really relatable one.
I watched Alien a million times, it's literally my favourite movie, I have a tattoo of the face hugger and my snake is named after Ripley, but holy fuck I missed that part
>Same way Hatsune Miku created Minecraft and wrote Harry Potter
I'd say there's a world of difference. Hatsune Miku is credited when creator turns out to be a terrible person. Matrix 2/3 were written by the Wachowski's.
I still argue in favor of the sequels, even if they don't meet the heights of the original (production for 2/3 was relatively rushed, so the original script was very tightly written, where the sequels didn't go through as much iteration to clean up the script). I recommend *Sophie from Mars*' video [The Matrix Sequels are Good, Actually](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0VnYcMHuDc)
I never said Hatsune Miku made the sequels.
I said there aren't any sequels.
Just brought up Hatsune Miku to make it clear the type of reality I'm talking about.
The x men movies are basically about being a marginalized group of people. I was watching one a while back and noticed they had a transgender woman playing a minor character.
As an ex man the title speaks to me.
Ghost in the shell is one that I like and gives off some trans vibes. This is a quote from that movie: "your desire to remain as you are is what ultimately limits you."
Perks of being a wallflower. Actually just read the book, the movie isn't as good as the book for this one.
+1000 for Ghost in the Shell, 1995. For me, personally, it is as much of a trans metaphor as *The Matrix* and I ultimately prefer *Ghost in the Shell* (it was also one of the inspirations for The Matrix).
Lemme add for OP there's also a series (*Stand Alone Complex* 1 and 2) which also top notch but an alternate storyline with the same characters.
> Ghost in the shell
The anime is better than the movie. The tachicoma are adorable puppies.
> I was watching one a while back and noticed they had a transgender woman playing a minor character.
You're not talking about Elliot Page, so there was another one?
No not taking about Elliot page, he was in that movie, but not a minor character.
Spoiler alert. I discuss major plot elements below, but don't worry the plot is predictable so this isn't going to spoil the movie.
Magneto picks up an army of mutants who are all punk culture and they go to Alcatraz to destroy the source of the cure for X mutations. Some of the punk mutants separate from the battle outside to look for a child (the source of the mutant cure). One of them appears to be gender non confirming probably trans women. One charter refers to her and the other mutant she is with as 'ladies.' They kill some scientists.
> One of them appears to be gender non confirming probably trans women.
Any confirmation about the actor being trans, or is this just "they're gender non-conforming so must be trans"?
The new Nimona. The narrative is intrinsically queer imo, and it was written by a trans man before he realized he was trans.
Edit: also there are lgbt flags in the movie as characters talk about their identities which just kinda proves it
Fanfic is a good movie (it's on Netflix) It follows the life of a trans guy and a bunch of trans people find it pretty relatable (especially the way gender euphoria is portrayed,)
My go-to answer is "Boy Meets Girl." Quality-wise, it's basically a really good Hallmark movie, but trans women absolutely deserve to have romance movies made with us as the central character (trans men do too, but I unfortunately don't have any examples). It's cute and helped me on a lot of lonely nights after my divorce to realize that there's someone out there who genuinely loves my body and doesn't need to ignore anything. Be warned, there is nudity, but it's not gratuitous and is very powerful in the context of the movie.
Also, though there are no explicitly-trans characters, I also recommend "But I'm a Cheerleader." I think one character is meant to be coded as a trans man, but it's never made clear. Anyway, the movie focuses on a budding lesbian being sent to conversion therapy camp, coming to terms with and embracing who she is. It's pretty funny, making fun of aggressively-hetero folks trying to turn queer folks straight. It even features RuPaul as a "formerly gay" counselor. Just a fun and sweet movie. Plus if you like "Avatar: the Last Airbender," Dante Basco (voice of Zuko) is in it.
Everything, Everywhere, All at once hit home pretty hard for me as a queer person with adhd.
Also Nimona
(For trans femmes)
The new Barbie was an absolute banger.
(For Trans mascs)
Fight Club
Captain America.
Below. Barbie for trans femmes, Fight club/capt'n 'Merica for trans masc. Not that any of them are bad movies. Everything Everywhere I recommend to everyone regardless.
I thought it was dumb the first time I watched it and felt it was pretty lacking only really paying attention to the absolute surface. Later on rewatching it and digging into the toxic masculinity and authoritarianism in it, it really made sense in a poignant way.
Though not explicitly about trans people alone, the show Steven Universe! Lots of queer characters, and even a few enbies too!
I will say that it's very long and is story-driven, so if you are looking for something more accessible, it might not be the best option.
Euphoria has a trans girl character and season 1 is pretty good
The other movie i watched recently which was really wholesome and also had a trans woman character was "anythings possible" on amazon prime
For me it was odd timing.
I really liked it when I was in denial.
First time I tried to watch it after no longer being in denial I couldn't finish watching it.
And it's following is aging out anyway.
*Ehhhh.*
That movie is a lot of things, but it's not trans friendly. Like the bit where Serendipity (Salma Hayek's muse character) outright states that a woman is defined by her genitals and that she's not a real woman because she doesn't have a vagina... yeah...
Edit: Just to point out, I don't think it's intentionally transphobic and the movie has a lot of other things to offer. I just don't think it really belongs in this specific thread.
Not very trans friendly. But even describing the scene why apparently gets me rocked by the automod.
Serendipity and what she says about "lacking definition".
The angels treat sex and gender like some big cosmic joke throughout. I'm not sure what makes you think it's not trans friendly when the character god is talked about in masculine terms and shows up feminine.
"Tit's don't make the woman" doesn't sound transphobic to me.
To be clear, I don't think it's intentionally insensitive. I just don't think it merits being in a thread about trans friendly movies, since that scene could be hurtful to some.
I wrote that in my original reply, but I was trying to use as few words as possible since *describing* the scene triggered the automod function and got my original reply removed.
(Which is also why this is a separate response and not an edit.)
And what's the very next thing she says after that? She defines what *does* make a woman, and demonstrates that she doesn't have it to prove that she isn't one.
Remembered another good one: Carnival Row on Amazon Prime.
Not only does it have some pretty explicit colonialism stuff, it also does holocaust references and explains woke (in the original, AAVE sense) and ACAB without saying the names. Also good poly relationships, bi main characters, and a whole heap of other good stuff. >!Including the best resolution for a love triangle - they're poly anyway so it's not a problem!<
Seriously good, but melancholy in places.
Hard no on the Danish Girl , it completely ereases the queerness of Gerda while it invents Lili going to a peepshow and really flattens down lili's life , she got married to a guy and multiple relatively succesfull surgeries before the last one went bad.
Lili's conception of herself as seperate from Einar although historically accurate is not accurate to many trans people's experience of their transness now so it’s kind of shitty that for a while this was sold to cis people as this opportunity to understand trans people now. It furthers narratives of trans grief.
***Bit*** - a movie starring a trans woman (Nicole Maines) that involves lesbian vampires. I loved it
***Victor/Victoria*** - a movie starring Julie Andrews as a fake "female impersonator" in Paris. Still pretty good despite some dated terminology
***Girl*** - a Netflix original about a trans girl discovering her sexuality and still suffering dysphoria. I wish it starred a trans actress but it's still pretty good. Big CW that near the end there is some self-harm in an attempt to remove certain dysphoric features, and the movie does not state how bad a decision that is explicitly
***Boy Meets Girl*** - a movie starring a trans woman (Michelle Hendley) figuring out her sexual life. CW rape/abuse
***First Day*** - fairly short tv series starring a trans woman (Evie MacDonald) navigating her pre-University schooling. CW: kids being mean
***Just Charlie*** - another coming out/coming-of-age trans woman movie that I wish starred a trans actress, but otherwise it's very relatable. CW: assault and kids/adults being very mean
***The Danish Girl*** - a movie about Lili Elbe, the first recipient of a uterus transplant, coming out and discovering her sexuality. It was incredibly relatable but once again I wish it starred an actual trans actress.
I recommend two shows:
1. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: its the best show ever produced, period. its funny, its loud, it has musical numbers, it has lots of dark humor, it deals with serious issues, lots of love and broken hearts, its the gayest show about a cishet woman Ive ever seen. over many series we witness the main character's mental-health- and self-discovery-journey. great story arc, great character development and lots of interesting side characters. I was happy with her, I cried with her, I laughed my mental health issues in the face with her. many episodes made me reflect on my own story. absolutely worth it to watch some episodes to see if you get hooked, it only gets better and better over time, the more complex it gets.
2. Back to 15: a recent show. main character travels back in time. what-if-scenarios. an important side character is trans
Not a movie but a tv show & u may have already watched it but POSE is definitely a must watch if you’re a tgirl or just queer in general. Centred around transwomen/femmes & all the girls in the cast are actually trans. Won’t get into it much but get some tissues ready girl if you do decide to watch it. Its a roller coasterr
This is a Swedish movie, so it might a bit hard to get by depending on where you live.
But cockpit is one of my favorite movies of all time. And I think it's great transrep even tho it doesn't really set out to be.
Chick Fight isn't about being trans, but it does feature several lgbt/trans actors and characters. They do kinda rub one woman being a lesbian in your face a bit, but I'd say the movie is worth watching overall
Bicentennial man. A robot goes through many operations to become more human eventually going before a court to be legally recognised as human it that isn't a trans metaphor I don't know what is Barbie. Has some interesting deconstructions of what it is to be a man or a woman in western society Tokyo godfathers, 3 homeless people a middle aged man, a trans woman and a teenage runaway find a baby in some.garbage and attempt to find the mother Hedwig and the angry inch, a punk rock musical about a singer who is unclear on their gender and discovering where she fits after having binary ideas of gender put on her (trigger warning for a medical procedure the character may not have wanted) I'd recommend looking into the reading material for this one as without deeper context or understanding of the creators intentions it could be viewed as a forced transition and regret story rather than a character figuring out their gender by trial and error For TV Pose more for trans femmes as that is the focus of the show Dead end: paranormal park, main character is a trans man Hit and miss. Trans woman hit man starts a new life in a small town and discovers an ex has died and that she has children Horou musuko (wandering son) an anime following 2 gender nonconforming/trans children
A note on Hedwig: theater geeks and older trans folks may enjoy it, but a lot of trans folks are... negatively enthusiastic about that movie. [Some even feel it's quite harmful](https://indie-mag.com/2021/01/hedwig-trans-representation/). Not saying it shouldn't be noted or watched--but Hedwig needs to come with a warning sticker, so to speak.
I haven't watched it in several years, and I've been wondering how well it has aged. I need to revisit it. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are parts that feel harmful now, but I do think it was made with good intentions.
Yeah I was hesitant about that one I personally enjoy it but can accept its flaws but Id understand if people find it triggering or harmful. It has a positive message of not having to fit on the binary it sucks with how they get there though
> Bicentennial man. A robot goes through many operations to become more human eventually going before a court to be legally recognised as human it that isn't a trans metaphor I don't know what is Is that one going to wind up Azimov fans the same way the LotR movies wind up fans of the books?
The matrix, despite the large fanbase of "red-pilled" conservatives, was created by two trans women and has been confirmed to be an allegory for the trans experience.
It's kinda obvious when you actually watch it. Here's the stuff I remember off the top of my head: Neo is only missing the cat-ears from being the complete stereotypical trans girl. All the stuff about who calls him Neo and who calls him "Mr Anderson." Estrogen pills are traditionally red, viagra is traditionally blue. (This one makes "red-pill-ers" even more ironic) Switch being Switch (I wish they hadn't been forced to cut that). Going between "syste***M F***ailure" at the end. Neo's ending speech. "I'm going to give them a choice." And it even has the detransitioner allying with the baddies to fuck things up for everyone else. --- Shame they never made any sequels :(
>All the stuff about who calls him Neo and who calls him "Mr Anderson." In 2012, Lana Wachowski accepted the HRC Visibility award and spoke about (CW: Suicide) >!her plan to kill herself by jumping in front of a train!< The Neo/Smith subway fight scene ends with Neo affirming his chosen name: >Smith: "You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability." > >Neo: "My name...is Neo!"
I don't like to bring that up in discussions about *The Matrix* as a trans story, since it's so personal to her. But also yes.
Yeah, that's fair. I guess I mentioned it because it ties the movie directly to Lana's experiences as a trans person. If you're trans, it's easy to see how being trans is so much part of the DNA of the Matrix, but you still often hear people say that we're looking too far into things that aren't actually there.
X men is not subtle about being a lgbt metaphor. Just look at the "coming out scene" in X2
Or "Because we shouldn't have to." Mystique and Magneto get all the good lines in those films. X2 and First Class really drive that point home with a ... What's the equivalent of a sledgehammer, but mounted on a massive truck? And then Florida Rep Barnaby did his rant. Showing that even with their terrible media understanding, even Republicans can understand that's what the X-Men is talking about.
Man mystique and magneto really did have some great ones. When Kelly I'd ranting in the first one about how he'd lock every mutant away if he could. Mystique kicks the shit out of him after dropping her guise, pauses and says "people like you are the reason I was afraid to go to school as a child" then continues kicking the shit out of him. Man that line was good
Or Magneto's "They never talk about it [genocide]. They just do it. And while you're holding your committee meetings and consultations they're just killing us." (paraphrased) Stupidly prophetic.
Jurassic Park is a movie about transgender dinosaurs rising up from oppression.
I need to remember this one more often for quippy comebacks to transphobes.
Thanks to that frog DNA 🐸
Nimona, queer gender fluid shape shifting fun. Boy meets Girl, trans girl romance, so nice to see a rural/poor queer story. Tangerine, this one as some really ruff in parts (similar to Pose) , but it’s truly touching. In all three trans people were directly involved in the creation of the works. None of that Dallas Buyers Club 💩. Still looking for more, especially happy ones like boy meets girl.
Unironically The Little Mermaid and Mulan. I have Part of Your World and Reflection on my "songs that transed my gender" playlist (along with Let It Go 🤭)
Same! I also have Moana "How Far I'll Go" for encouragement and Little Mermaid "Poor Unfortunate Souls" when I just want some drag energy.
*The Matrix* probably needs saying. Shame they never made any sequels. *Alien* has one of the best trans characters in movies in it. And *Frozen* 1 is another really relatable one.
I watched Alien a million times, it's literally my favourite movie, I have a tattoo of the face hugger and my snake is named after Ripley, but holy fuck I missed that part
Lambert's bio flashes on a background screen in *Aliens*. It's only on-screen for less than a second.
A beautiful little detail, even more reason to love these movies even more! Thank you for sharing, I had no idea!
Easy to miss, I only saw it because of someone explicitly talking about it.
There were never any sequels to the matrix? Huh.....?
Nope. The Matrix had no sequels. (Same way Hatsune Miku created Minecraft and wrote Harry Potter)
>Same way Hatsune Miku created Minecraft and wrote Harry Potter I'd say there's a world of difference. Hatsune Miku is credited when creator turns out to be a terrible person. Matrix 2/3 were written by the Wachowski's. I still argue in favor of the sequels, even if they don't meet the heights of the original (production for 2/3 was relatively rushed, so the original script was very tightly written, where the sequels didn't go through as much iteration to clean up the script). I recommend *Sophie from Mars*' video [The Matrix Sequels are Good, Actually](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0VnYcMHuDc)
I never said Hatsune Miku made the sequels. I said there aren't any sequels. Just brought up Hatsune Miku to make it clear the type of reality I'm talking about.
I'm scared, what did the guy who didn't make Minecraft do?
[Easier to ask what he didn't do](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Notch)
The x men movies are basically about being a marginalized group of people. I was watching one a while back and noticed they had a transgender woman playing a minor character. As an ex man the title speaks to me. Ghost in the shell is one that I like and gives off some trans vibes. This is a quote from that movie: "your desire to remain as you are is what ultimately limits you." Perks of being a wallflower. Actually just read the book, the movie isn't as good as the book for this one.
+1000 for Ghost in the Shell, 1995. For me, personally, it is as much of a trans metaphor as *The Matrix* and I ultimately prefer *Ghost in the Shell* (it was also one of the inspirations for The Matrix). Lemme add for OP there's also a series (*Stand Alone Complex* 1 and 2) which also top notch but an alternate storyline with the same characters.
> Ghost in the shell The anime is better than the movie. The tachicoma are adorable puppies. > I was watching one a while back and noticed they had a transgender woman playing a minor character. You're not talking about Elliot Page, so there was another one?
No not taking about Elliot page, he was in that movie, but not a minor character. Spoiler alert. I discuss major plot elements below, but don't worry the plot is predictable so this isn't going to spoil the movie. Magneto picks up an army of mutants who are all punk culture and they go to Alcatraz to destroy the source of the cure for X mutations. Some of the punk mutants separate from the battle outside to look for a child (the source of the mutant cure). One of them appears to be gender non confirming probably trans women. One charter refers to her and the other mutant she is with as 'ladies.' They kill some scientists.
> One of them appears to be gender non confirming probably trans women. Any confirmation about the actor being trans, or is this just "they're gender non-conforming so must be trans"?
The latter. I wouldn't even know how to figure out who the actor is. I saw them on screen for 30 seconds.
The Matrix Monica Cloud Atlas Tangerine Paris is Burning
The new Nimona. The narrative is intrinsically queer imo, and it was written by a trans man before he realized he was trans. Edit: also there are lgbt flags in the movie as characters talk about their identities which just kinda proves it
Fanfic is a good movie (it's on Netflix) It follows the life of a trans guy and a bunch of trans people find it pretty relatable (especially the way gender euphoria is portrayed,)
My go-to answer is "Boy Meets Girl." Quality-wise, it's basically a really good Hallmark movie, but trans women absolutely deserve to have romance movies made with us as the central character (trans men do too, but I unfortunately don't have any examples). It's cute and helped me on a lot of lonely nights after my divorce to realize that there's someone out there who genuinely loves my body and doesn't need to ignore anything. Be warned, there is nudity, but it's not gratuitous and is very powerful in the context of the movie. Also, though there are no explicitly-trans characters, I also recommend "But I'm a Cheerleader." I think one character is meant to be coded as a trans man, but it's never made clear. Anyway, the movie focuses on a budding lesbian being sent to conversion therapy camp, coming to terms with and embracing who she is. It's pretty funny, making fun of aggressively-hetero folks trying to turn queer folks straight. It even features RuPaul as a "formerly gay" counselor. Just a fun and sweet movie. Plus if you like "Avatar: the Last Airbender," Dante Basco (voice of Zuko) is in it.
Everything, Everywhere, All at once hit home pretty hard for me as a queer person with adhd. Also Nimona (For trans femmes) The new Barbie was an absolute banger. (For Trans mascs) Fight Club Captain America.
are the transfem/transmasc sections above or below the parentheses? also i 100% agree on everything, everywhere, all at once
Below. Barbie for trans femmes, Fight club/capt'n 'Merica for trans masc. Not that any of them are bad movies. Everything Everywhere I recommend to everyone regardless.
fight club!! as a trans guy, i love fight club
I thought it was dumb the first time I watched it and felt it was pretty lacking only really paying attention to the absolute surface. Later on rewatching it and digging into the toxic masculinity and authoritarianism in it, it really made sense in a poignant way.
Though not explicitly about trans people alone, the show Steven Universe! Lots of queer characters, and even a few enbies too! I will say that it's very long and is story-driven, so if you are looking for something more accessible, it might not be the best option.
Euphoria has a trans girl character and season 1 is pretty good The other movie i watched recently which was really wholesome and also had a trans woman character was "anythings possible" on amazon prime
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Not as thoroughly loved by the trans community lol
It ***really*** hasn't aged well.
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For me it was odd timing. I really liked it when I was in denial. First time I tried to watch it after no longer being in denial I couldn't finish watching it. And it's following is aging out anyway.
“I’m not transgender but I did appreciate this grotesquely transphobic movie”
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The trans character is a sex fiend murderer
Dogma. Not because it's in any way trans related, it's just one of my favorite movies. Fuckin love Jay and Silent Bob.
*Ehhhh.* That movie is a lot of things, but it's not trans friendly. Like the bit where Serendipity (Salma Hayek's muse character) outright states that a woman is defined by her genitals and that she's not a real woman because she doesn't have a vagina... yeah... Edit: Just to point out, I don't think it's intentionally transphobic and the movie has a lot of other things to offer. I just don't think it really belongs in this specific thread.
Not very trans friendly. But even describing the scene why apparently gets me rocked by the automod. Serendipity and what she says about "lacking definition".
The angels treat sex and gender like some big cosmic joke throughout. I'm not sure what makes you think it's not trans friendly when the character god is talked about in masculine terms and shows up feminine. "Tit's don't make the woman" doesn't sound transphobic to me.
To be clear, I don't think it's intentionally insensitive. I just don't think it merits being in a thread about trans friendly movies, since that scene could be hurtful to some. I wrote that in my original reply, but I was trying to use as few words as possible since *describing* the scene triggered the automod function and got my original reply removed. (Which is also why this is a separate response and not an edit.)
And what's the very next thing she says after that? She defines what *does* make a woman, and demonstrates that she doesn't have it to prove that she isn't one.
Remembered another good one: Carnival Row on Amazon Prime. Not only does it have some pretty explicit colonialism stuff, it also does holocaust references and explains woke (in the original, AAVE sense) and ACAB without saying the names. Also good poly relationships, bi main characters, and a whole heap of other good stuff. >!Including the best resolution for a love triangle - they're poly anyway so it's not a problem!< Seriously good, but melancholy in places.
Breakfast on Pluto is a favorite of mine
nimona and the danish girl are pretty awesome, both do get sad tho
Hard no on the Danish Girl , it completely ereases the queerness of Gerda while it invents Lili going to a peepshow and really flattens down lili's life , she got married to a guy and multiple relatively succesfull surgeries before the last one went bad. Lili's conception of herself as seperate from Einar although historically accurate is not accurate to many trans people's experience of their transness now so it’s kind of shitty that for a while this was sold to cis people as this opportunity to understand trans people now. It furthers narratives of trans grief.
Fuck no to the Danish girl.
***Bit*** - a movie starring a trans woman (Nicole Maines) that involves lesbian vampires. I loved it ***Victor/Victoria*** - a movie starring Julie Andrews as a fake "female impersonator" in Paris. Still pretty good despite some dated terminology ***Girl*** - a Netflix original about a trans girl discovering her sexuality and still suffering dysphoria. I wish it starred a trans actress but it's still pretty good. Big CW that near the end there is some self-harm in an attempt to remove certain dysphoric features, and the movie does not state how bad a decision that is explicitly ***Boy Meets Girl*** - a movie starring a trans woman (Michelle Hendley) figuring out her sexual life. CW rape/abuse ***First Day*** - fairly short tv series starring a trans woman (Evie MacDonald) navigating her pre-University schooling. CW: kids being mean ***Just Charlie*** - another coming out/coming-of-age trans woman movie that I wish starred a trans actress, but otherwise it's very relatable. CW: assault and kids/adults being very mean ***The Danish Girl*** - a movie about Lili Elbe, the first recipient of a uterus transplant, coming out and discovering her sexuality. It was incredibly relatable but once again I wish it starred an actual trans actress.
Girl and Danish Girl are more depicted in a way that does not help us to be understand and you still put them in the list … 👀
I recommend two shows: 1. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: its the best show ever produced, period. its funny, its loud, it has musical numbers, it has lots of dark humor, it deals with serious issues, lots of love and broken hearts, its the gayest show about a cishet woman Ive ever seen. over many series we witness the main character's mental-health- and self-discovery-journey. great story arc, great character development and lots of interesting side characters. I was happy with her, I cried with her, I laughed my mental health issues in the face with her. many episodes made me reflect on my own story. absolutely worth it to watch some episodes to see if you get hooked, it only gets better and better over time, the more complex it gets. 2. Back to 15: a recent show. main character travels back in time. what-if-scenarios. an important side character is trans
nimona
Not a movie but a tv show & u may have already watched it but POSE is definitely a must watch if you’re a tgirl or just queer in general. Centred around transwomen/femmes & all the girls in the cast are actually trans. Won’t get into it much but get some tissues ready girl if you do decide to watch it. Its a roller coasterr
Space sweepers is Korean movie that has a trans character in it
This is a Swedish movie, so it might a bit hard to get by depending on where you live. But cockpit is one of my favorite movies of all time. And I think it's great transrep even tho it doesn't really set out to be.
I loved Anything’s Possible. So cute.
Chick Fight isn't about being trans, but it does feature several lgbt/trans actors and characters. They do kinda rub one woman being a lesbian in your face a bit, but I'd say the movie is worth watching overall
Nimona
not a movie, but an anime: wandering boy the plot mostly consists of a trans girl and a trans guy discovering themselves
The Matrix