Discussion about movies with a transgendered theme

[bondageboy02]

Would you guys be mad if I told you I've never seen blade runner?

I don't know about a favorite, but this thread brought to mind how Soldier's Girl made me cry.

[Amy]

Boys don't cry is another good film dealing directly with transgender topics.

[Naked Freedom]

Originally Posted by Amy

Boys don't cry is another good film dealing directly with transgender topics.

Thanks Amy for referring the movie, 'Boys don't cry', I just watched it yesterday...and came to know about Teena Brandon's story. It is quite awful to learn about such hate crimes. Hope with the legalization passed over the hate crimes in the US the situation gets better in the coming years

On the note of movies that have a trans collation in them are the X-men movies.
If you watch them again, like I just did, you will see how much the mutant struggle compares to the transgender struggle.

1. The general public knows very little about mutants and are afraid of them, i.e. mutantphobia. What they do know is from media. And most that media is propaganda.
2. The mutants, if found out, are a most instantly shun by humans. So there for most live their lives in secret, and a lot grow to hate the fact they are mutant.
3. Mutants, when they are growing up, feel like they are the only one. It isn't till they get older find others who share their plight.
4. Mutants have very little support from humans. Some, if not most, have to seek out places of refuge to feel safe to live their lives.
5. Most choose to take on a chosen name for themselves.
6. There are people who think that mutants need to be cured. When they don't. Mutants are who they are naturally.

So if you watch those movies with that in mind. Than it holds a completely new meaning for you.

I didn't used to like the first three x-men movies to begin with, because they weren't really congruent with the comics, or so I've been told (I wasn't much for reading comics as a kid :P). But having watched them again. I now have new found fondness for them.

Also... I think one of the supporting characters is played by a very androgynous woman. Arclight who is played by Omahyra Mota Garcia. She's a fashion model.

Omahyra Mota Garcia with an androgynous guy. Androgyny at it's best.

[sosed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNP6IeO8cDw

There is a good movie Strella from Greece.

The movie talk about tgirl Strella and her father Jorgos, who is released from prison after long years and who want to find his son Leonidas and later find out that his son was actually Strella and later accept her, because they have only each other.