Transgender in the Media
Growing up trans, it is hard to find positive role models or representations of trans people within the main stream media. This list contains many (yes many) media outlets that you can find positive, interesting and educational materials and artists focusing on the transgender experience.
Music:
Television (T) and Movies (M):
- (M) XXY
- (M) Gun Hill Road
- (M) Hedwig and the Angry Inch
- (T) TransGeneration
- (T) Transgender and Pregnant
- (M) Spork
- (M) Boys Don’t Cry
- (M) Boy I am
- (M) Beautiful Daughter
- (M) My Life in Pink
- (T) My Transexual Summer
- (M) Soldier’s Girl
- (M) Breakfast on Pluto
- (M) Tomboy
- (M) Albert Nobbs
- (M) Trans America
- (T) Prodigal Sons
- (M) She's a Boy I Knew
- (M) Trans: The Move
- (T) Hit & Miss
Literature: (Most of these can be borrowed from the LGBT Center of Raleigh Library)
- Transgender 101: A simple Guide to a Complex Issue - Nicholas M Teich
- Making Faces - Kevyn Aucoin
- Just Add Hormones - Matt Kailey
- She’s Not There - Jennifer Boylan
- Whipping Girl - Julia Serano (lead singer of “Bitesize”)
- Middle Sex - Jeffrey Eugenides
- Gender Outlaw - Kate Bornstein
- 10000 Dresses - Marcus Ewert
- Transgender History - Susan Stryker
- My Husband Betty - Helen Boyd
- She’s Not the Man I Married - Helen Boyd
- F2M - Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy
- Transparent - Cris Beam
- The Youngest Finds Joy - Rebecca Chapin
- I'm Looking Through You - Jenny Boylan