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Finding
the Femme Within
Two
documentaries, Female to Femme and Boy I Am,
spark new conversations about gender identity.
A
Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story
The
new Lifetime movie starring J.D. Pardo and Mercedes Ruehl
dramatizes the true story of slain transgendered teen Gwen
Araujo.
Gender
Trouble on The L Word
Through Max's storyline this season, The
L Word reduced the complexity of transgender issues to
a stereotypical war between the sexes, promoted stereotypes,
and ridiculed the possibility of butch identity.
Transamerica
Felicity
Huffman delivers an enlightened portrayal of a MTF transgender
person.
TransGeneration
This engrossing and entertaining eight-part documentary strings
together the stories of four transgender college students,
each at different points in their transformation.
Review
of The Opposite Sex: Rene's StoryThis
new documentary airing on Showtime is stunning in its frank
and often unflattering portrayal of female-to-male transgender
Rene and the surgery that he undergoes in his journey to become
“a whole person.”
Review
of By Hook or By CrookBy
Hook or By Crook is a
buddy movie aboutthe friendship between
two gender-ambiguous characters, but it's also an indictment
of how we treat the mentally ill in our society.
