Trans Representation In Media - Recommendations

There isn’t as much positive trans representation in different forms of media as there should be, but we’ve certainly made some decent strides in recent years. Seeing yourself represented on TV or in a book is incredibly empowering, and for some people decently written trans character can actually help them realize they’re trans in the first place.

Although - some of these aren’t such a positive representation of trans people. They’re included here because they can act as a lesson on what not to do, and what can be done better in future.

Tv Shows/Films/Anime/Documentaries

• Disclosure

• Born To Be

• Work In Progress

• Billions

• Alice Junior

• The True Adventures of Wolfboy

• Lingua Franca

• Transhood

• Vida

• High Maintenance

• 9-1-1 Lone Star

• Paris Is Burning

• Ma Vie en Rose

• Tangerine

• The Danish Girl

• The Trans List

• Drunktown's Finest

• Transfinite

• Boys Don't Cry

• Hollyoaks (Jason Costello)

• Passing

• Gun Hill Road

• Growing Up Coy

• All About My Mother

• Princesa

• Better Than Chocolate

• Sense8

• Orange Is The New Black

• Boy Meets Girl

• Pose

• Sex Education

• Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

• Transparent

• Kiss of the Spider Woman

• Pride on FX

• Supergirl

• Pray Away

• Euphoria

• Tales of the City

• We Are Who We Are

• Degrassi: Next Generation (Seasons 10 – 13)

• Romeos

• Girl

• Tomboy

• Hedwig and the Angry Inch

• Tangerine

• Priscilla Queen of the Desert

• Ranma

• Feel Good

• Shrill

• The Trans List

• Orlando

• A Fantastic Woman

• Alice In Borderland

• Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling

• Craig Of The Creek

• Steven Universe

• Zombieland Saga

• Stop!! Hibari-kun!

• Chocolate Babies

• Major!

Books/Comics/Manga

• Parrotfish

• Saga

• Boku Girl

• Felix Ever After

• Between Perfect and Real

• The Witch King

• May The Best Man Win

• Both Sides Now

• I Wish You All The Best

• Meet Cute Diary

• If I Was Your Girl

• Birthday

• Cemetery Boys

• Author: River Solomon

• Sara Or The Existence Of Fire

• Dreadnaught

• How To Be A Girl by Marlo Mack

• She’s Not There by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Podcasts

• One From The Vaults

• Science Of Being Transgender

• My Non-Binary Life

• Gender Reveal

• Trans Sister Radio

• You’re So Brave

• How To Be A Girl

• What’s The Trans!?

• Taylor Mittelsteadt’s ‘Transition/Transformation’

• Blossoming Minds

• The Pinkpilled Podcast (On YouTube)

• The Alice Sickface Wellbeing Podcast

• Gender Euphoria

• Girl-ish

• Queersplaining with Callie Wright

• We Happen To Be Trans

• Stories For Monsters

Video Games

• Tell Me Why

• Celeste

• The Missing

• Unsighted

• Get In The Car, Loser

• Undertale

• Deltarune

• Dragon Age Inquisition

• AC Syndicate

• A Year Of Springs

• If Found

Leave any suggestions for anything I’ve missed in the comments below, and I’ll be sure to add them here.

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