Trans Activism Movies

Losing control of my body due to dysphoria and what society has taught me is the greatest loss I’ve ever experienced. A silent loss, a discreet...

A young trans woman walks into a meticulously clean and sterile bathroom and proceeds to shave away hair, then skin, in an increasingly bloody and...

One of the first (and perhaps therefore ambiguous) approaches to homosexuality in Spain at the time. The film narrates in cinematographic form the...

The story of Luisa Kiara Marabolí Barrientos a transgender woman, and her journey from living 44 years in obscurity under an imposed identity...

Six young people discuss the "gender affirming" medical care they received for gender dysphoria and how they subsequently came to believe this was...

A compelling portrait of Mikah Sharkey, a Vancouver-based cinematographer navigating the friction between the rigid "brotherhood" of the camera...

Performative and expository documentary, which highlights the contrast of experience among transgender men in Brazil. The short film brings five...

A documentary essay about Argentinian trans activist Maite Amaya.

Billy, Rene, and Walt were born and raised as men, but they felt uncomfortable with their birth sex. After years of confusion, they each underwent...

In this beautiful portrait, Sekani, an Indigenous trans woman, speaks about surviving the streets of Vancouver, about loss, about where she comes...

In a country where transgender people are celebrated in culture but unprotected by law, two candidates running for public office fight to prove that...

Created by drag queen Gaia do Brasil, the film tells the story of a trans woman expelled from home by her family at the rise of the HIV and AIDS...

The struggle of a trans woman to have her identity recognized at her workplace.