List of feature films with transgender characters explained

This is a list of films with fictional and factual transgender characters. The films were released theatrically, direct-to-video, or on a streaming platform (non-linear network). This list does not include documentaries, which are listed on the lists of LGBT-related films by decade, or animated transgender characters, which are noted in List of fictional trans characters.

Various live-action films feature either transgender issues as a plot element or have trans men, trans women or non-binary trans characters. Films are in alphabetical order by year of release. Titles beginning with determiners "A", "An", and "The" are alphabetized by the first significant word.

20th century

1900–1959

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
1953	Glen or Glenda	Glenda	Trans woman	Ed Wood	Filmed when it was illegal for a man to crossdress as a woman in public.	United States	^[1]
		Anne		Tommy Haynes
1954	Adam est... Ève	Charles Beaumont	Trans woman	Micheline Carvel	Likely the first French trans film in which a boxer is "knocked out", then wakes up realizing she is a woman.	France	^[2]

1960–1969

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
1967	Caprice	Dr Stuart Clancy	Transgender	Ray Walston	Clancy is May Fortune's head chemist.	United States
1969	Funeral Parade of Roses	Eddie	Transgender	Peter	Follows a group of transgender drag queens, Eddie and a few others, in the Japanese underground. The film has been described as "a documentary being made about Tokyo's gay culture". Even though it is a black-and-white drama film, it is said to have influenced the 1971 film A Clockwork Orange.	Japan	^[3] ^[4] ^[5] ^[6] ^[7]

1970–1979

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
1970	Beyond the Valley of the Dolls	Ronnie "Z-Man" Barzell	Transgender	John LaZar	Barzell is a flamboyant, well-connected rock producer.	United States
1970	The Christine Jorgensen Story	Christine Jorgensen	Trans woman	John Hansen	A former Army private from the Bronx undergoes surgery and hormone treatments in Denmark in 1952 to transition from male to female. Based on Jorgenson's autobiography. (Jorgensen later unsuccessfully tried to get a restraining order to stop the producer's estate from exploiting the film.)	United States	^[8] ^[9] ^[10] ^[11] ^[12]
1970	Myra Breckinridge	Myra Breckinridge	Trans woman	Raquel Welch	Myra has undergone a sex change operation.	United States	^[13] ^[14] ^[15]
1972	I Want What I Want	Roy / Wendy	Transgender	Anne Heywood	An unhappy boy who tries to fulfill his "dreams of becoming a beautiful woman."	United Kingdom	^[16]
1972	My Dearest Senorita	Adela Castro Molina / Juan	Trans man	José Luis López Vázquez	Adela moves to Madrid and takes on a new masculine identity, "Juan".	Spain	^[17]
1972	A Reflection of Fear	Marguerite	Trans woman	Sondra Locke	Marguerite suffers from what appears to be paranoia.	United States	^[18]
1972	The Triple Echo	Barton	Trans woman		A British soldier deserts his unit during WWII. At the suggestion of a woman named Alice, he meets while exploring the countryside nearby, he disguises himself as her sister to escape detection. Enjoying the experience a little too much, he agrees to accept the invitation of a soldier to attend a dance at the base, risking exposure.	United States	^[19]
1974	Freebie and the Bean	(Unnamed)	Transgender	Christopher Morley	Morley's unnamed character "Tranvestite" is a thief who gets riddled with bullets in the end. Vito Russo noted this film when explaining that while some progress had been made in Hollywood by this point, most lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender film characters were portrayed as viciously stereotypical, criminals or murder victims.	United States
1975	The Day of the Locust	Nightclub Entertainer	Transgender	Paul Jabara	Jabara is LGBT in real life.	United States
1975	Dog Day Afternoon	Leon Shermer	Trans woman	Chris Sarandon	Leon is Sonny's partner. Sonny is a first-time crook who tries rob a bank to pay for Leon's sex reassignment surgery, but his plan goes awry. It is also mentioned that Sonny has children with his estranged wife, Angie (this led critic Tim Robey to call Sonny a "bisexual desperado").	United States	^[20] ^[21] ^[22]
1975	Inside Out	Pauli	Transgender	Bernard Bauer	Ernst and Sly purchase a camera to photograph Maar with a transsexual named Pauli.	United Kingdom	^[23]
1975	The Rocky Horror Picture Show	Dr. Frank N Furter	Transvestite	Tim Curry	Brad cheats on his fiancée, Janet Weiss, with an alien, Dr. Frank N Furter.	United Kingdom	^[24]
						United States
1977	Desperate Living	Mole McHenry	Trans man	Susan Lowe	A character who gets phalloplasty.	United States	^[25] ^[26] ^[27]
1977	Fun with Dick and Jane	(Unnamed)	Trans woman	Christian Erickson	Dick Harper is in an unemployment line behind a pre-op character telling the clerk that she needs the money for her "operation". When Harper first speaks to the clerk, he jokes insultingly about the extremely homosexual person in front of him, and gets harshly corrected by the clerk.	United States
1978	In a Year of 13 Moons	Elvira Weishaupt	Trans woman	Volker Spengler	Weishaupt faces brutal cruelty on an everyday basis.	West Germany	^[28]
1979	...And Justice for All	Ralph Agee	Transgender	Robert Christian	Ralph is a young black cross-dresser arrested for a robbery, who is terrified of being sent to prison.	United States
1979	Alien		Trans woman		In the sequel Aliens (1986) a biography very briefly flashes up on a computer screen in the background. The biography establishes Lambert as having had her gender altered from male to female. On the extras of a DVD presentation, one could see Lambert's full bio, which reads: "Despin Convert at birth (male to female). So far no indication of suppressed traumas related to gender alteration".	United States	^[29]
1979	Life of Brian	Loretta	Trans woman	Eric Idle	Loretta tells her comrades Reg, Judith, and Francis that she wants to be a woman, wants to have babies, and that it is "every man's right to have babies if he wants them." Although Reg is skeptical, Judith accedes to Loretta's request that she "can have the right to have babies" which Francis agrees to as symbolic of the struggle against the Romans, while Reg says it is part of Loretta's "struggle against reality".	United Kingdom	^[30] ^[31] ^[32]

1980–1989

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
1980	Dressed to Kill	Bobbi	Transgender	Michael Caine	Bobbi is a murderer. During the film's initial release, the activist group Women Against Violence in Pornography and Media distributed a leaflet denouncing the film's misogynistic and transphobic attitudes, arguing that "the distorted image of a psychotic male transvestite [sic] makes all sexual minorities appear sick and dangerous."	United States	^[33]
1980	Health	Esther Brill	Trans woman	Lauren Bacall	Brill was afflicted with narcolepsy who calls herself "the first lady of health while Garnell is serious against commercialism and materialism.	United States	^[34]
		Isabella Garnell		Glenda Jackson
1981	Pixote	Lilica	Transgender	Jorge Julião	Lilica is framed for a murder.	Brazil
1982	Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean	Joanne	Transgender	Karen Black	Joanne is a window shopper.	United States
1982	Forbidden Zone	René Henderson	Trans woman	Matthew Bright	Henderson is Squeezit's sister.	United States	^[35] ^[36]
1982	The World According to Garp	Roberta Muldoon	Trans woman	John Lithgow	A former player for the Philadelphia Eagles who has gender re-assignment surgery. Roberta becomes the bodyguard of Jenny and one of the best friends of Garp. Based on the book of the same name.	United States	^[37] ^[38]
1983	Sleepaway Camp	Angela	Trans woman	Felissa Rose	Angela is the killer and main character. (Springsteen took over the role in the two sequels that followed.)	United States
				Pamela Springsteen
1985	Kiss of the Spider Woman	Molina	Trans woman	William Hurt	The character in the movie is not referred as a trans woman but a homosexual, still the character wears dresses and make-up.	Brazil / United States	^[39]
1986	Vera	Bauer	Trans man	Ana Beatriz Nogueira	Bauer (birth name "Vera") is a transsexual man who lives in a correctional facility for young people. After writing a book of verses about his life as a young troubled youth, he comes into his gender identity and begins to dress as a man, eventually falling in love with a woman and passing as cisgender to her family.	Brazil
1987	Law of Desire	Tina Quintero	Transgender	Carmen Maura	Tina is Pablo's sister.	Spain	^[40]
1989	Sonny Boy	Pearl	Trans woman	David Carradine	Pearl is the adoptive mother of the main character, Sonny Boy. The other characters don't discuss her gender status.	United States	^[41]

1990–1999

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	Jame Gumb / Buffalo Bill	Bisexual trans woman	Ted Levine	Director Jonathan Demme said about the character: "He didn't wish to be another gender...He didn't really have a sexual preference. He loathed himself — he wanted to transform himself so that there was no sense of him in the 'new' him [and] becoming a woman...that was his method of doing it...He wished he was a woman not because he always wanted to be a woman. This was another way to escape."	United States	^[42] ^[43]
1991	Soapdish	Montana Moorehead	Trans woman	Cathy Moriarty	Moorehead is formerly called "Milton Moorehead, of Syosset, Long Island" before transition.	United States	^[44]
1992	The Crying Game	Dil	Trans woman	Jaye Davidson	The plot revolves Dil, a girlfriend of one of the protagonists.	Ireland	^[45] ^[46]
						Japan
						United Kingdom
1992	Just like a Woman	Gerald Tilson/Geraldine	Transgender	Adrian Pasdar	Tilson finds himself thrown out by his wife when she discovers women's underwear in their flat.	United Kingdom	^[47]
1992	Orlando	Orlando	Trans woman	Tilda Swinton	Orlando is a character whose sex changes after two-thirds of the film.	United Kingdom	^[48] ^[49]
						France
						Italy
						Netherlands
						Russia
1993	The East Is Red	Dongfang Bubai / Invincible Asia	Trans woman	Brigitte Lin	Bubai is the primary antagonist. ("Invincible Asia" is the name given in the subtitles.)	Hong Kong	^[50]
1994		Lt. Lois Einhorn / Ray Finkle	Transgender	Sean Young	A protagonist. The film has been heavily criticized for its portrayal of trans women, especially its stereotyping of the trans character as villainous and physically repulsive.	United States	^[51] ^[52] ^[53]
1994		Tanya Peters	Trans woman		Peters is Rocco's girlfriend.	United States	^[54]
1994	The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert	Bernadette Bassenger	Transgender	Terence Stamp	Bernadette performs a lip sync club act with two drag queens. Near the end of this cult film, Bernadette is shocked to learn that Anthony/Mitzi was not only once married to a woman but also has a son.	Australia	^[55] ^[56]
1994	Skulhedface	Flopsy	Trans man	Bob Gorman	Flopsy is the vulva-faced lab assistant of Skulhedface. He is referred to with male pronouns.	United States
1995	Bugis Street	Lola	Trans woman	Ernest Seah	Lola is one of the prostitutes inhabiting the Sin Sin Hotel on Bugis Street. Meng, the boyfriend of Lola, seduces Lin (a young female chambermaid and desk clerk at the hotel).	British Hong Kong	^[57] ^[58] ^[59]
						Singapore
1995	To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar	Chi-Chi Rodriguez	Trans woman	John Leguizamo	Chi-Chi wants to be seen and accepted as a woman by the local men.	United States	^[60] ^[61]
1996	Different for Girls	Kim Foyle	Trans woman	Steven Mackintosh	Two childhood friends who are reunited after one of them, Kim, has undergone sex reassignment surgery	United Kingdom	^[62] ^[63]
1996	Close Your Eyes and Hold Me	Hanabusa	Transgender	Kumiko Takeda	Love triangle with a transvestite bar hostess, based on the manga Me wo Tojite Daite by Shungicu Uchida	Japan
1996	I Shot Andy Warhol	Candy Darling	Trans woman	Stephen Dorff	Darling is best known as a Warhol superstar.	United KingdomUnited States	^[64]
1996	Escape from L.A.	Hershe Las Palmas/ Jack “Carjack” Malone	Trans woman	Pam Grier	Palamas is a past criminal associate of Snake's.	United States
1997	Bent	Greta	Transvestite	Mick Jagger	The movie opens with a gay orgy, hosted by the transvestite Greta.	United Kingdom, Japan	^[65]
1997	Black Rose II	Chi-Mo's restaurant boss	Transgender	Kin-Yan Lee	Chi-Mo's boss is transitioning to female.	Hong Kong	^[66]
1997	Ma vie en rose	Ludovic "Ludo" Fabre	Trans girl		Ludo wants to live as a girl.	France	^[67] ^[68]
						Belgium
						United Kingdom
1997	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	Chablis Deveau	Trans woman	The Lady Chablis	Lady Chablis became a transgender icon and one of the first transgender performers to be received by a wider audience.	United States	^[69] ^[70] ^[71]
1998	The Adventures of Sebastian Cole	Henrietta Rossi	Trans Woman	Clark Gregg	Henrietta has gender reassignment surgery, which is protested by her stepson, Sebastian.	United States	^[72]
1998	The Velocity of Gary	Kid Joey	Transgender	Chad Lindberg	Joey is a young deaf trans who just arrived in New York.	United States	^[73]
1998	Woo	Celestrial	Transgender	Girlina	Celestrial is Woo's psychic friend.	United States	^[74]
1999	All About My Mother	Agrado	Trans woman	Antonia San Juan	Agrado is a transgender sex worker and friend of the film's protagonist, Manuela. Lola, the father of Manuela's son Esteban, is also a trans woman.	Spain	^[75]
		Lola		Toni Cantó
1999	Better Than Chocolate	Judy	Trans woman	Peter Outerbridge	Judy is disinherited because of her gender transition and begins a romantic relationship with Frances, a lesbian separatist who owns a bookstore	Canada	^[76] ^[77]
1999	Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena	Trans man	Hilary Swank	Brandon's life is threatened and becomes the victim of a hate crime. The movie received much media attention when its star Hilary Swank, who played Brandon, won the Academy Award for Best Actress.	United States	^[78] ^[79]
1999	Flawless	Rusty Zimmerman	Transgender	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Zimmerman is a drag queen.	United States	^[80]
1999	Wild Zero	Tobio	Trans woman	Kwancharu Shitichai	The protagonist, Ace, falls in love with a transgender woman named Tobio he meets at a gas station on his way to a concert. He returns to her in time to rescue her from a horde of zombies and when the main character is conflicted about falling in love with a "woman who is also a man", Guitar Wolf tells him "Love knows no race, nationality or gender!"	United States	^[81]
1999	But I'm a Cheerleader	Jan	Trans man	Katrina Phillips	The character is trans coded but not declared as such in the film.	United States	^[82]

21st century

2000–2004

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
2000	Before Night Falls	Bon Bon	Trans woman	Johnny Depp	Bon Bon is a flamboyant trans woman who walks through the Cuban prisons, helping to smuggle a manuscript out of the prison.	United States	^[83] ^[84] ^[85]
2000	Gouttes d'eau sur pierre brûlante	Vera	Trans woman	Anna Thompson	Friend of the main character, she is introduced by a mention of having had a genital operation.	France	^[86]
2000	Woman on Top	Monica Jones	Trans woman	Harold Perrineau Jr.	Jones is Isabella's Afro-Brazilian friend.	United States	^[87] ^[88]
2001	By Hook or by Crook	Shy	Trans man		A queer buddy film written, directed by, and starring trans men, like Shy.	United States	^[89]
2001	Gaudi Afternoon	Frankie Stevens	Transvestite		Frankie is actually a man in drag — or a "pre-op transsexual".	United States, Spain	^[90]
2001	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Hedwig Robinson/Hansel	Trans woman	John Cameron Mitchell	A transgender German glam rocker recounting the story of her betrayal by her former boyfriend	United States	^[91] ^[92] ^[93]
2003	Beautiful Boxer	Nong Toom / Parinya Charoenphol	Trans woman	Asanee Suwan	Toom is a kathoey who becomes a champion kickboxer in order to pay for the sex change surgery and transition as Parinya Charoenphol. Charoenphol makes a cameo appearance as a beauty consultant.	Thailand	^[94] ^[95]
2003	Chouchou	Chouchou	Trans woman	Gad Elmaleh	French comedy film about a maghrebin immigrant who settles in Paris. Chouchou finds a job at a psychiatrist office who allows Chouchou to come dressed in women's clothes. Chouchou also finds friends in a community of transvestites and trans women in Paris. Creator Gad Elmaleh has said his film might not have been received the same nowadays, he wanted to portray a character "who was authentic, with a true heart, for whom it is a tragedy not to be able to live as her/his authentic self. I'm afraid now [I'm not to using the right words]."	France	^[96] ^[97]
2003	A Mighty Wind	Mark Shubb	Trans woman	Harry Shearer	Shubb has transitioned into a woman during the film.	United States	^[98]
2003	Normal	Ruth Applewood	Trans woman		A midwestern factory worker and closeted trans woman, who stuns her wife of 25 years, revealing that she wishes to have sex reassignment surgery, and changing her name to Ruth.	United States	^[99]
2003	Party Monster	Christina	Trans woman	Marilyn Manson	The film involves transsexuality in the character Christina.	United States	^[100]
2003	Soldier's Girl	Calpernia	Trans woman	Lee Pace	Based on the real-life story of the relationship between Private Barry Winchell and singer Calpernia Addams.	United States	^[101]
2004	Agnes and His Brothers	Agnes	Trans woman	Martin Weiß	Martin, who is now Agnes after having a gender-reassignment operation, works as a dancer and is suffering from unrequited love.	Germany
2004	Bad Education	Zahara	Transgender	Gael García Bernal	Zahara is a drag queen whose birth name is Ignacio.	Spain	^[102]
2004	Wild Side	Stéphanie	Trans woman	Stéphanie Michelini	Main trans character played by a trans actress. The film won the Teddy Award in 2004.	France	^[103] ^[104]

2005–2009

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
2005	20 centímetros	Marieta	Trans woman	Mónica Cervera	A narcoleptic trans woman during her transition from male to female.	Spain
2005	Breakfast on Pluto	Patrick "Kitten" Braden	Trans woman	Cillian Murphy	Assigned male at birth, young Patrick, living during the Irish Times of Trouble, is later shown donning a dress and lipstick, which angers her foster family.	Ireland	^[105] ^[106]
						United Kingdom
2005	Strange Circus	Yuji	Trans man		The novelist's assistant.	Japan	^[107]
2005	Tom-Yum-Goong	Madame Rose	Trans woman	Jin Xing	Madame Rose, the main villain, is a transgender woman in the international versions. The actress who plays Rose, Jin Xing, is also transgender herself.	Thailand
2005	Transamerica	Sabrina "Bree" Osbourne	Trans woman	Felicity Huffman	Bree is a trans woman who goes on a road trip with her long-lost son Toby.	United States	^[108] ^[109]
2006	En Soap	Veronica	Trans woman	David Dencik	A film about the love between a (pre-operative) trans woman, Veronica, and a lesbian.	Denmark	^[110]
2006	Grilled	Loridonna	Trans woman	Sofía Vergara	A sultry trans woman who seduces unsuspecting Maurice when he and Dave, two desperate meat salesmen, knock on her door.	United States	^[111]
2007	Itty Bitty Titty Committee	Aggie	Trans man	Lauren Mollica	A comedy about young feminists who spread their message through public art and vandalism. Aggie is a trans man and he bonds with the main character, Anna, who recently broke up with her girlfriend and falls in love with Sadie, later developing an apparent crush on her.	United States	^[112] ^[113] ^[114]
2009	Powder Blue	Lexus	Transgender	Alejandro Romero	Lexus is a pre-op trans woman prostitute who shares an unexpected emotional bond with the priest Charlie.	United States	^[115]
2009	Paulista	Suzana	Trans woman	Maria Clara Spinelli	A laywer who is the roommate of the main character.	Brazil	^[116]
2009	Strella	Strella	Trans woman	Mina Orfanou	A young transgender prostitute named Strella meets Yorgos when he is released from prison after 14 years of incarceration for a murder he committed in his small Greek village.	United States	^[117]

2010–2014

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
2010	Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives	Bubbles Cliquot	Trans woman	Krystal Summers	A rape/revenge "transploitation" film about a trio of trans women who avenge themselves on three men who brutally attack them and kill two of their friends. GLAAD stated that the film "misrepresent[s] the lives of transgender women and use[s] grotesque, exploitative depictions of violence against transgender women in ways that make light of the horrific brutality they all too often face", adding that the film conflated transgenderism with drag, which would create the impression in viewers unfamiliar with trans issues that "transgender women are ridiculous caricatures of 'real women'".while lead actress Krystal Summers said that the film "does not promote hate or violence against transgender women...[and is] a work of fiction and a revenge fantasy."	United States	^[118] ^[119]
2011	Albert Nobbs	Albert Nobbs	Trans man	Glenn Close	Although born female, Albert has spent the last 30 years living as a man and meets Hubert, a painter who is also living as a man after escaping an abusive husband. Albert is living in 19th century Dublin and working as a butler.	United Kingdom	^[120] ^[121] ^[122]
		Hubert Page		Janet McTeer		Ireland
2011	Austin Unbound: A Deaf Journey of Transgender Heroism	Austin Richey	Trans man	Austin Richey	The film mainly focuses on Rochey’s deafness.	United States	^[123]
2011	Facing Mirrors	Adineh (Eddie)	Trans man	Shayesteh Irani	Rana and Adineh (Eddie), two people of different backgrounds and social class are brought together to share a cab ride. In the middle of their journey in the cab, Rana realizes that her passenger Adineh is transgender, and is planning on having an operation.	Iran	^[124]
2011	Gun Hill Road	Vanessa	Trans woman	Harmony Santana	A film about a recently released ex-convict coping with her estranged wife and daughter, Vanessa, who is going through transition from male to female.	United States	^[125]
2011	Romeos	Lukas	Trans man	Rick Okon	A drama and tragicomedy which revolves around the romantic relationship between Lukas, a 20-year-old gay trans man who is transitioning from female to male, and a cisgender gay man named Fabio.	United States	^[126]
2011	Tomboy	Mikäel	Trans man	Zoé Héran	A 10-year-old AFAB child who, after moving with their family to a new neighborhood, introduces themself to their new friends as Mikäel. The film has been described as being about a girl who pretends to be a boy or, alternatively, about a transgender boy.	France	^[127] ^[128] ^[129] ^[130]
2012	3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom	Phyllis	Trans woman	Ron Perlman	Phyllis is a hacker.	United States	^[131]
2012	Laurence Anyways	Laurence Alia	Trans woman	Melvil Poupaud	Alia is an award-winning novelist and literature teacher in Montreal, Quebec.	Canada	^[132]
2013	52 Tuesdays	James	Trans man	Del Herbert-Jane	The film centres on a teenage girl dealing with the gender transition of a parent.	Australia	^[133] ^[134]
2013	Adult World	Rubia	Transgender		Amy moves in with her coworker Rubia and they become close friends.	United States	^[135]
2013	Dallas Buyers Club	Rayon	Trans woman	Jared Leto	Rayon is an HIV-positive drug addict.	United States	^[136] ^[137]
2014	Boy Meets Girl	Ricky	Trans woman		A trans woman from rural Kentucky, awaiting acceptance into a New York fashion design school, learns about acceptance, friendship, sexuality and love.	United States	^[138]
2014	Carmín Tropical	Mabel	Trans woman	José Pecina	An indigenous trans woman or muxe investigates the murder of her best friend.	Mexico	^[139]
2014	Pierrot Lunaire	Pierrot	Trans man	Susanne Sachsse	An adaptation of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire that features a trans man in the title role.	Canada	^[140]
						Germany
2014	Predestination	Jane/John	Transgender	Sarah Snook	John is born female in a Cleveland orphanage.	Australia	^[141]

2015–2019

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
2015	3 Generations	Ray	Trans man	Elle Fanning	Teenager Ray is transitioning from female to male. Ray struggles with his mother and grandmother to get approved for hormone replacement therapy.	United States	^[142] ^[143] ^[144] ^[145]
2015	The Danish Girl	Lili Elbe	Transgender	Eddie Redmayne	Elbe is one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery.	United Kingdom	^[146] ^[147]
						United States
2015	Grandma	Deathy	Transgender	Laverne Cox	Deathy is Elle's tattoo artist friend.	United States	^[148] ^[149]
2015	Tangerine	Alexandra	Trans woman	Mya Taylor	Alexandra and Rella are transgender sex workers	United States	^[150] ^[151] ^[152]
		Sin-Dee Rella		Kitana Kiki Rodriguez
2015	Two 4 One	Adam	Trans man	Gavin Crawford	Transgender man helps ex-girlfriend with her insemination, inseminates himself in the process	Canada	^[153]
2016		Patsy Stone	Trans woman	Joanna Lumley	Stone is redesigned as a trans woman in the movie.	United Kingdom, United States	^[154]
2016	Spidarlings	The Diva	Trans woman	Jeff Kristian	The film focuses on a lesbian couple, Eden and Mathilda.	United Kingdom	^[155]
2016	Apricot Groves	Aram	Trans man	Narbe Vartan	Aram is an Iranian-Armenian who has lived in America and returns to Armenia to meet his girlfriend’s family and ask permission to marry her, and to receive gender-affirming surgery in Iran.	Armenia	^[156]
2016	Tamara (2016 Venezuelan film)	Tamara	Trans woman	Luis Fernández (actor)	The film is about a successful lawyer who takes the decision to start a gender transition.	Venezuela	^[157]
2017	A Fantastic Woman	Marina Vidal	Trans woman	Daniela Vega	Marina works as a singer and a waitress in Santiago, Chile who is grieving the sudden death of her boyfriend.	Chile	^[158] ^[159]
2017	Close-knit	Rinko	Trans woman	Toma Ikuta	Tomo, 11 year old girl, goes to live with her uncle and his girlfriend, Rinko, who is a trans woman.	Japan	^[160]
2018	A Kid Like Jake	Jake Wheeler	Transgender	Leo James Davis	Jake is Alex and Greg's preschool age son.	United States	^[161]
2018	Assassination Nation	Bex	Trans woman		Bex discusses whether or not LGBTQ people should be sympathetic to those "who enact policies to erase them."	United States	^[162]
2018	Every Day	Vic	Trans woman	Ian Alexander	Vic is one of the teenagers the spirit "A" experiences in.	United States	^[163]
2018	For Nonna Anna	Chris	Trans woman	Maya Henry	A young trans woman taking care of her ailing grandmother.	Canada	^[164]
2018	Just Charlie	Charlie	Trans woman	Harry Gilby	A young trans girl who loves to play football	United States	^[165]
2018	Girl	Lara Verhaegen	Trans woman	Victor Polster	A trans girl in training to become a ballerina. Over the course of the story she seeks hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgery.	United States	^[166]
2018	Tracey	"Travis Tung" / "Tracey"	Trans woman	Philip Keung	Story about a married man and father whose craving for feminization increases, leading him to transition from male to female both mentally and physically.	Hong Kong	^[167]
2018	Voyez comme on danse	Serena	Trans woman	Sara Martins	Serena is a trans woman who has a relationship with a married man. The romance is secondary.	France	^[168]
2019	Adam	Ethan	Trans man	Leo Sheng	The main character is a straight cisgender man who is perceived as a trans man accidentally and who does not dispute that error until some time into the story. He is friends with a trans man, Ethan, played by Leo Sheng.	United States	^[169] ^[170]
2019	Alice Júnior	Alice Júnior	Trans woman	Anna Celestino Mota	A trans girl who moves to the countryside.	Brazil	^[171]
2019	Bit	Laurel	Trans woman	Nicole Maines	Laurel moves to Los Angeles after graduating high school, looking to make a fresh start after transitioning.	United States	^[172]
2019	La Dea Fortuna	Mina	Trans woman	Cristina Bugatty	A white trans woman who's a friend of the main characters.	Italy	^[173]
2019	Lola (Lola vers la mer)	Lola	Trans woman	Mya Bollaers	A white trans woman suffers the loss of her mother and having to deal with her father whom she hasn't seen in a long time and who is not accepting of her trans identity. The actress is a trans woman.	France	^[174]
2019	Port Authority	Waye	Trans woman	Leyna Bloom	A black trans woman who participates in New York City's ball culture.	United States	^[175]
2019	The True Adventures of Wolfboy	Aristiana	Trans girl	Sophie Giannamore	Giannamore is a "mermaid" girl whom Harker befriends.	United States	^[176]

2020–2024

Year	Title	Character(s)	Identity	Actor	Notes	Country
2020	Cowboys	Joe	Trans man	Sasha Knight	Trans boy Joe's troubled but well-intentioned father Troy takes off with him into the Montana wilderness, pursued by police, after his wife Sally, from whom he has recently separated, refuses to let Joe live as his authentic self.	United States	^[177]
2020	A Good Man	Benjamin	Trans man	Noémie Merlant	A drama about a French couple's wish to have a child that leads Benjamin, a trans man, to become pregnant because of his partner's unability to conceive.	France	^[178]
2020	Miss	Alex	Genderfluid	Alexandre Wetter	Alex has always wanted to be Miss France, they are now trying to accomplish that dream. The character is not presented as a trans woman but they could be described as a genderfluid person. There is a trans woman, Lola, played by a cisgender actor, who is a sex worker. The film has been criticized for its poor portrayal of the transgender experience, for being racist and treating the subject of sex work poorly.	France	^[179] ^[180]
2020	Night Ride	Ariel	Trans woman	Ola Hoemsnes Sandum	Allan flirts with Ariel, but becomes upset upon learning Ariel's gender identity.	Norway	^[181]
2020	A Perfectly Normal Family	Agnete	Trans woman	Mikkel Boe Følsgaard	The story follows Emma whose parent is transitioning as a trans woman.	Italy	^[182]
2020	Rūrangi	Caz Davis	Trans man	Elz Carrad	Caz Davis left his home in the small town of Rūrangi, abandoning everyone, and moved to Auckland to start his new life where he transitions. Years later, he returns to the town where he grew up for the first time as an out trans man.Elz Carrad is trans and this is his first role. He had no connexion to the trans community in New Zealand. The project was initially planned to be a five-part web series, but was later edited together into a feature film. They set out to create a film that was 'by us and about us', and that meant making sure the audience got to see trans-positive experiences in the film, and show that they have love for themselves, along with affection from friends, family and the community.	New Zealand	^[183] ^[184]
2020	Valentina	Valentina	Trans woman	Thiessa Woinbackk	The film portrays the challenges of a young trans girl who faces difficulties in ensuring that her identity is respected after moving to a small town.	Brazil	^[185]
2021	See You Then	Kris Ahadi	Trans woman	Pooya Mohseni	Kris is a trans-woman from Phoenix, Arizona.	United States	^[186]
2021	Space Sweepers	Bubs	Transgender	Kim Hyang Gi	A group of space junk collectors discover a humanoid robot named Bubs. Some called Bubs a "trans allegory" rather than representation.	South Korea	^[187] ^[188] ^[189] ^[190]
				Yoo Hae-jin
2021	West Side Story	Anybodys	Trans man	iris menas	Anybodys was originally written as a tomboy in the 1961 movie who yearns to be one of the Jets.	United States	^[191]
2022	Anything's Possible	Kelsea	Trans woman	Eva Reign	A young trans woman attending high school.	United States	^[192]
2022	Dodo	Eva	Trans woman, non-binary	Tzef Montana	She is a sex worker and the ex of the protagonist.	Greece	^[193] ^[194]
2022	Joyland	Biba	Trans woman		A Pakistani trans woman who the youngest son of the family depicted in the film falls in love with.	United States	^[195]
2022	L'immensità	Adriana / Adri / Andrea	Trans boy	Luana Giuliani	Adriana experiences gender dysphoria and identifies as a male and goes by the name of Andrea (a primarily masculine name in Italian).	Italy, France	^[196]
2022	The People's Joker	Joker the Harlequin/Vera	Trans woman	Vera Drew	Unofficial parody of the Batman franchise starring a transgender Joker	United States	^[197]
		Mr. J	Trans man	Tommy Haynes
		Poison Ivy	Non-binary	Ruin Carroll
2022	A Man Called Otto	Malcolm	Trans boy	Mack Bayda	Malcolm is one of Otto's wife's students.	United States	^[198]
2022	Monica	Monica	Trans woman	Trace Lysette	Monica is estranged from her family. She returns home to care for her dying mother.	United States, Italy	^[199]
2022	Paloma	Paloma	Trans woman	Kika Sena	The film follows the life story of Paloma, a transsexual rural producer who dreams of getting married in church to her boyfriend, Zé, however, the local church does not allow the union to be made official	Brazil	^[200]
2022	Women Talking	Melvin	Trans man	August Winter	Melvin has adopted a male identity after a brutal incestuous rape and now rarely speaks except to the colony's children	United States	^[201]
2023	Mutt	Feña	Trans man	Lio Mehiel	Feña is a Chilea-American trans man who is forced to reunite with three people from his past. His little sister, his father, and his ex-boyfriend.	United States	^[202] ^[203]
2023	Un homme heureux	Edith	Trans man	Catherine Frot	As Eddy, trans man, announces to his husband that he is trans and is going to transition, his husband, mayor of a smalltown, announces he is running again for the position. The film then follows the couple as Jean processes that news while Eddy continues with his transition. The film is a comedy.	France	^[204]
2023	20,000 Species of Bees	Lucía	Trans girl	Sofia Otero	Lucía is an 8-year old transgender girl	Spain	^[205]
2023	Marupok AF (Where Is The Lie?)	Janzen Torres	Trans woman	EJ Jallorina	Trans woman who falls victim to an online dating catfishing scheme. The film is based on the online dating experience of a real trans woman.	Philippines	^[206]
2023	Here Comes the Groom	Wilhelmina	Trans woman	KaladKaren	The film features multiple body swaps including one involving the protagonist Rodrigo Jr. (Enchong Dee) and Wilhelmina.	Philippines	^[207]
2023	My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3	Victory	Non-binary	Melina Kotselou	Victory is the mayor of Vrisi, a village which features as the main setting of the film.	United States	^[208]
2023	Next Goal Wins	Jaiyah Saelua	Transgender	Kaimana	Saelua is the first openly non-binary and trans woman to compete in a FIFA World Cup qualifier.	United States	^[209]
2023	Orlando, My Political Biography	Orlando	Transgender/Non-binary	21 transgender and non-binary persons	The film explores the struggles of trans and binary people through Woolf's novel Orlando	France	^[210]
2024	Emilia Pérez	Emilia Pérez / Juan "Small Hands" Del Monte	Trans woman		Pérez is an escaped Mexican cartel leader in undergoing sex reassignment surgery to both evade the authorities and affirm her gender.	France	^[211]
2024	Monkey Man	Alpha	Trans woman		Alpha is the community leader of Yatana's hijra community, the transgender people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as guru-chela system in India.	Canada, United States	^[212]
2024	Ponyboi	Charlie	Trans woman		Charlie is a MC at a local club.	United States	^[213]
2024	Stress Positions	Karla	Trans woman		Karla is Terry's best friend.	United States	^[214]

See also

• List of feature films with lesbian characters
• List of feature films with gay characters
• List of feature films with bisexual characters
• List of film franchises with LGBT characters
• List of animated films with LGBT characters
• List of made-for-television films with LGBT characters
• List of transgender characters in television
• Media portrayals of transgender people
• List of transgender-related topics

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• List of movies with transgender themes

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