Logan’s Trans March: A Look at 31 Trans-masc Films and Media

Note: this is a transfer over from a WordPress blog of mine, so apologies for any errors that come with. Originally written in March of 2019.

“I was a rather awkward child, I never felt like I belonged, and then one day I tried on my brother’s school uniform, and that was it. I knew I was home for the first time.”

- Colette, 2018

March 31st is the recognized day of Transgender Visibility, and this one is the first I’m able to celebrate as an out trans man. To commemorate this, I decided to look into myself in my favorite medium second to writing — film. I’ve heard up and down, left and right about movies and their depictions of trans women- I got thirty minutes into a hate-watch of “The Danish Girl” before rage quitting, so we’ll categorize my general knowledge there as “not great, mostly negative outlook”- but going into March, I realized I could count on one hand the number of movies I knew of that depicted men like me, regardless of quality. Thus, I compiled a list (that can be found for reference here) of 31 movies that in some way depicted trans men, from the early 20th century to now.

Qualifications for a movie to be on this list were that I had to a) be able to find it in some medium, be it DVD, online rental, or a book that the movie itself was originally based on, and b) the movie obviously had to include some depiction of…