Find out what made it onto our list of 10 of the best movies about transgender people. By Juliet Jacques. Although many of the first transsexual and openly transgender-identified people were trans men, the cinema, like newspapers and television, tended to focus on trans women, perhaps because the idea that people might voluntarily relinquish their male privilege mystified the men who controlled the western media. During the s, underground filmmakers cast trans people — and not always in trans roles. Below is a selection of 10 trans-themed films from the last 50 years.

This article is an ode to such film-making, which opens a dialogue about them, discusses them, debates about them. But most importantly, they attempt to portray transgenders as normal human beings. This list contains films which talk about transgenders, along with being true to their cinematic values. So, here is the list of top movies about transgenders.

Are you looking for something more diverse for your next movie night? Would you like to see trans people better represented on your screen? One contributing factor — and probably a result as well — is the impact of great transgender movies that bring these issues more into the public sphere. That these films are part of such a positive movement is one reason you should already have seen them by now. The other reason?