Gender and the transsexual body in Transamerica. Transamerica , by Duncan Tucker, released in , addresses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer- LGBTQ- related themes through a transsexual female protagonist, Bree. This article discusses the film as an important step in the direction of representing the complexity of gender, which, by today's standards, is more generally appreciated. Because of its subject matter, Transamerica is a contentious film, lauded and condemned in mainstream media for how it dealt with and represented transsexual identities. Despite nominations for a number of awards, the film's portrayal of transsexual identities was largely ignored in academic discourse at the time. I argue here that the film provides insight into the challenges, requirements, concerns, as well as the consequences of gender-fluid expression, which has been recognised in academia for years and has become a more discussed topic in mainstream society, but the manner in which the film examines these insights was overlooked.

J ust a few years back, finding a film dealing with the subjects of transsexuality and transgenderness was equivalent to finding a needle on a haystack. Realistic representations of trans people using trans people, on the other hand, were almost non-existent. Times have changed quickly. This superb Chilean drama tells the story of a transsexual woman called Marina Vidal played by trans actor Daniela Vega dealing with the unexpected bereavement of her lover and the undesirable encounter with his children and former wife, and the moment all the ugly transphobia gets out of the cage.

This is a list of films and television shows with transgender people and transgender fictional characters. This does not include documentaries , which are listed on the lists of LGBT-related films by decade or animated characters, which are noted on the List of fictional trans characters page. Various films feature either transgender issues as a plot element or have trans men , trans women or non-binary trans characters.