Media, non-fiction and fiction, which features butches or explores butch experiences. This includes butches who identify with terms like transmasculine.

Documentary, Short Film
2025
Australia, United States of America
Photographer Esther Godoy Wants You to Know “Butch is Not a Dirty Word”
Esther Godoy, a butch originally from Australia, is interviewed alongside American photography subjects as they photograph butches for their series Butch is Not a Dirty Word.

Talking Head
2025
England
let's talk about being a butch lesbian on testosterone
Saskia, a non-binary butch lesbian who is 15 months on testosterone and experiences gender dysphoria, discusses this hormone journey and offers an individual perspective on masculinity, butchness, and gender overall. Saskia also mentions being unable to bind, and desiring top surgery.

Short Film
2024
Afghanistan (افغانستان), Iran (ایران)
Na Marei (The Invisible)
Zaid, an Afghan teenager played by Iranian actress Sadaf Asgari, lives and works as a man for his family (bacha posh). He finds that his identity goes deeper than this masquerade, however, and is unwilling to return to a female life when his mother demands that he get married. Determined to keep his secret girlfriend and finish his entrance exams, he tries to continue life as a man.

Documentary
2023
United States of America, Hong Kong (香港 )
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
American trans man Octavio Sanders, Hongkonger-American trans man Chin Tsui, American trans man Trevon Haynes, and masculine-of-centre American boi Kisha Batista are filmed decades after appearing in The Aggressives (2005).

Book (Non-Fiction)
2017
United States of America
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the 20th Century
This book explores the lives of trans men living in the U.S.A. between 1876 and 1936, examining their experiences of being outed, their romantic relationships, their participation in the workforce, and their preferences for rural towns over cities. The impact of race on their lives is also considered.

Short Film
2015
United States of America, Puerto Rico (Borikén)
Vámonos
Mac, a butch played by Puerto Rican non-binary actor Vico Ortiz, is dressed femininely after death by intolerant family members. Hope, Mac's partner, breaks into the funeral home prior to the funeral, dressing Mac's body masculinely so that Mac's identity is respected in death.

Documentary
2005
United States of America, Hong Kong (香港 )
The Aggressives
Six Americans are interviewed about their identities, sexual orientations, backgrounds, struggles, and goals for the future. At the time of filming, all six identified as Aggressive, with the terms butch and transgendered also used. Several would go on to identify as trans men, as seen in Beyond the Aggressives (2023).

Documentary
2002
United States of America, Austria (Österreich)
Venus Boyz
Multiple drag kings are interviewed about their motivations for doing drag, their identities, their medical transitions, and their understandings of gender. Interviewees include cis women, trans men, non-binary people, Jack Halberstam, Hans Scheirl, and Del LaGrace Volcano; an intersex non-binary person who is transitioning on testosterone and doesn't mind being read as a man.

Documentary
1996
Germany (Deutschland), United States of America, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Japan (日本)
Vor Transsexuellen Wird Gewarnt (Transexual Menace)
Jamison Green, Loren Andrew Patrowski, Maxwell Scott Anderson, and several other American trans men are interviewed in this documentary. Eva Love, a trans woman, discusses her relationship with a trans man. Butch/trans trailblazer Leslie Feinberg is also interviewed. Dr. Toby Meltzer discusses phalloplasty and other transition surgeries.

Book (Fiction)
1993
United States of America
Stone Butch Blues
Authored by the butch/trans pioneer Leslie Feinberg, this novel follows the journey of stone butch Jess Goldberg. Jess experiences abuse and discrimination due to her masculinity, begins using testosterone as an adult, has a chest reduction, and ultimately falls in love with a trans woman named Ruth.


















