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Trans Male Media

Media featuring trans men and trans boys, from documentary subjects to fictional characters.

Trans Male with Male

Media featuring trans men who are in relationships with men, and trans boys who are attracted to boys.

Trans Male with Female

Media featuring trans men who are in relationships with women, and trans boys who are attracted to girls.

Trans Relationships

Media featuring trans and gender-diverse people who are in relationships with, or are attracted to, other TGD people.

Gender-Related Surgery

Media which references or deeply explores gender-related surgeries, such as phalloplasties and mastectomies.

Non-Binary Media

Media which features non-binary people, and explores gender outside of a man-woman binary.

Ambiguously-Gendered Media

Media featuring characters, assigned female at birth, who are ambiguous in gender identity.

Culture-Specific Media

Media which features culture-specific gender identities and social roles, such as Brotherboy and Onabe.

Butch Media

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

Trans Parenthood

Media featuring trans fathers, non-binary parents, and trans reproductive themes.

Intersex Media

Media which includes or discusses people born with innate variations of sex characteristics.

Adam

Adam Kashmiry, an Egyptian-Scottish trans man, plays himself alongside Iraqi-English actress Yasmin Al-Khudhairi. Adam experiences sexual abuse and discrimination in Egypt, has a short-lived relationship with an Egyptian lesbian woman, is made homeless by his father, and seeks asylum in Scotland. After being mistreated by immigration officials and stuck in legal limbo for almost two years, he is finally granted permanent asylum in Scotland.

Tien: Becoming Queer Joy

Tien Neo Eamas, a 55-year-old Singaporean-Canadian transman, discusses growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family, recognising himself in another trans man of colour, being the first Asian trans man to come out in Vancouver, enduring racialised expectations of manhood, overcoming hatred and abuse, attempting suicide, and finally finding joy both in himself and in his community.

He is a TRANSMAN from INDIA

Oliver Jähnke, a Swedish trans guy, interviews Jagrit, a trans male Indian lawyer. He discusses his supportive family, Hindu beliefs, accepting workplace, having top surgery, and his goals for the future. On the day of the interview, he had his first testosterone injection.

The Whistle

StormMiguel Florez, a Xicane trans man, returns to his hometown to interview the lesbians who grew up in his community.

Cowboys

Joe, a trans boy played by American trans actor Sasha Knight, is accompanied by his accepting father as he runs away from his transphobic mother.

Holy Curse

Radha, a child played by Indian actress Mrunal Kashid, does not feel like a girl and presents in a masculine manner. In response, Radha's family come to believe that the child is possessed by a male spirit, and must therefore be cleaned with a religious ritual. Snigdha Kapoor, the director, was inspired by personal childhood experiences and by Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi.

Close to You

Sam, a bisexual trans man played by Canadian trans actor Elliot Page, returns to his hometown for his father's birthday, encountering his former best friend along the way.

Rūrangi

Caz, a trans man played by Māori trans male actor Elz Carrad, returns to his rural hometown to reconnect with his estranged father, ex-boyfriend, and best friend.

Work in Progress

Chris, a trans male barista played by American non-binary actor Theo Germaine, falls in love with an older queer woman named Abby, played by American actor Abby McEnany. The series is semi-autobiographical and based on Abby McEnany's life.

Somebody Somewhere

Fred Rococo, a trans man played by American trans comedian/actor/performer Murray Hill, is an emcee and professor of agricultural sciences. He gets married to a woman in the show's second season. The series itself is a comedy that has been very well received, and does a wonderful job of humanising both cis men and trans men.

Media which references or directly explores gender-related surgeries, such as phalloplasties and mastectomies.

Note that all relevant images on this site, particularly images related to phalloplasty and metoidioplasty, are censored. Some entries briefly mention surgery, whereas others explore surgery more directly.

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A still from the documentary Girls to Men: Born in the Wrong Body, showing a barbershop customer photographed from behind. He is sitting in a barbershop chair, wearing a protective cape while the barber shaves the back of his neck. He is a light-skinned English trans man with short, dark brown hair. He has a tattoo on the back of his neck which reads, "MAN MADE," in red letters, surrounded by a red rectangle.
Documentary
2015
England

Girls to Men: Born in the Wrong Body

Three English trans men are interviewed about their experiences starting testosterone, having top surgery, and having phalloplasty. They are filmed alongside supportive, unsupportive, and outright hostile individuals, from strangers to family members. Potentially distressing themes are poorly handled, and graphic surgery footage is shown.

Three images displayed side-by-side. The central image shows the front cover of a book, with the large title reading, "Hung Jury," above a photo of The Statue of David by Michelangelo. The left image shows trans man Trystan T. Cotten sitting outdoors in a park, laughing happily. He has brown skin, a bald head, black facial hair, tattooed chest and arms, and is wearing black shorts. A city is visible in the blurred distance. The right image shows trans man Shannon Minter standing indoors, laughing happily, hands in the pockets of his trousers. He is wearing a striped collared shirt. He is light-skinned and bald, with grey facial hair.
Book (Non-Fiction)
2012
United States of America

Hung Jury

Multiple transsexual men describe their experiences with bottom surgery (phalloplasty and metoidioplasty), with several partners sharing their experiences as well.

An Iranian trans man in the 2008 documentary Be Like Others, wearing a black hijab, glasses, and female attire. He is looking at his doctor with a neutral or concentrating expression. He has brown hair.
Documentary
2008
Iran (ایران)

Be Like Others: Transsexuals in Iran

An Iranian trans man is shown having an appointment with Dr. Mir Jalili, who performs transition surgeries. The pair discuss getting approval for surgery.

Moses, a Spanish trans man, sitting indoors with his legs crossed, gesturing as he speaks. He is brown-skinned, with short black hair and black facial hair. He is wearing white trunks and sitting on a red couch.
Documentary
2004
Spain (España)

El camino de Moisés (The Path of Moses)

Moses, a Spanish transsexual man, pursues phalloplasty and legal recognition of his male gender. Other trans people are also interviewed about their transitions and lives.

Three trans men in the film Unhung Heroes. Two are men of colour, one is lighter-skinned. All three are sitting around a table, looking into the distance with thoughtful expressions.
Short Film
2002
United States of America, Germany (Deutschland)

Unhung Heroes

Five trans men, after finding a flyer advertising penis transplants, imagine their lives post-transplant and come up with plans to get enough money for a transplant each. Written and directed by trans man Lazlo Pearlman. Stars Mestizo-American trans man Prado Gomez and German-American trans man Max Wolf Valerio.

A black screen showing the word "PHALLOCY" in white letters, against a totally black background.
Experimental Film, Short Film
2000
United States of America

Phallocy

Jay Allen Sennett, an American transsexual man, made this short film in the late 90s, expressing struggles with his identity, body, and transition.

Lou Sullivan, a female-to-male transsexual, sitting indoors and smiling happily during an interview with psychiatrist Dr. Ira Pauly. Lou is wearing a dark blue suit with a white shirt and blue tie. He is light-skinned and has short, brown hair.
Interview
1988, 1989, 1990
United States of America

Female-to-Gay-Male Transsexualism: Lou Sullivan and Dr. Ira Pauly

Lou Sullivan, an American transsexual man, discusses his life, transition, sexual orientation, and aspirations with Dr. Ira Pauly.

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