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

Interview
2026
United States of America
Becoming the Man I Always Knew I Was | Julian Melson
Julian Melson, a 60-year-old American trans man, is interviewed alongside his best friend and ex-wife. He discusses growing up as a tomboy, experiencing dysphoria, having an accepting family, and overcoming substance use disorder.

Interview
2025
Brazil (Brasil)
LGBT+60: Seu Franco, A 67-Year-Old Trans Man
Seu Franco, a 67-year-old Brazilian trans man, is interviewed about his life, transition, and aspirations. He discusses having a mastectomy one year ago, being inspired by trans male trailblazer João W. Nery, and pursuing his manhood in defiance of both family and partners.

Game
2024
Fictional Location, United States of America
Dragon Age: Veilguard
In this fantasy roleplaying game, players are Rook, a hero working to save the world. Rook can be made canonically trans during character creation. There is a non-binary main character, a non-binary main antagonist, and several trans minor characters.

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.

Short Film
2024
India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya)
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 cleansed with a religious ritual. Snigdha Kapoor, the director, was inspired by personal childhood experiences and by Devdutt Pattanaik’s Shikhandi.

Interview
2024
United States of America
I Became A Trans Dad At 15
Nev, an eighteen-year-old American trans man, discusses becoming a father to his girlfriend's child when he was only fifteen, also discussing the support he received from his late mother and how his own father has also come to support him.

Interview
2023
India (Bhārat Gaṇarājya), Sweden (Sverige)
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.

Reality TV
2023
England
Naked Education (S01E03)
Finlay Games, a British trans man, stars in episode 3 of this body positive series. He shows his post-phalloplasty and post-mastectomy body for the education of Lucian, a younger British trans man, and viewers. He shares his story and answers questions about how phalloplasty operations work.

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).

Film
2023
United States of America
Summer Solstice
Leo, an aspiring trans male actor played by American non-binary actor Bobbi Salvör Menuez, reconnects with an old friend.

Interview
2023
United States of America
Charley Burton
Charley Burton, a 63-year-old American trans man, is interviewed about his life, transition, sobriety, relationships, authorship, and advocacy. He discusses surviving sexual abuse, substance use disorder, suicidal ideation, depression, and conversion therapy.

Interview
2023
Singapore (சிங்கப்பூர் 新加坡), Canada
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.

















