SDSU How Boys Don’t Cry Film Pushes the Boundaries Regarding Gender
Approved List:
Dramas (fiction and nonfiction)
Tomboy (2011)
Boys Don’t Cry
Dramatic retelling of a true story
General Trans Issues
Trans (2012) (Amazon Prime, Kanopy)
Transhood (2020) (HBO, HBO Max)
Athletics (General)
Changing the Game (2020) (Hulu)
Transgender Bodybuilding Documentaries
Transformer (2017) (Netflix)
Man Made (2019)
Transgender Representation in the Media
The Trans List (2016) (Links to an external site.) (also HBO)
Disclosure (2020) (Netflix)
Transgender Activism
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017) (Netflix)
Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria (2005)
Drag Culture
Paris is Burning (Links to an external site.) (fans of Pose will love this!)
Military Issues
Transmilitary (2018) (Links to an external site.)
Explores the fight for transgender service people to remain in the military
Invisible War (2012) (Links to an external site.)
Explosive documentary about sexual assault in US military
Feminist Issues
It’s a Girl (2012)
The devaluation of women and female genocide in India and China
The Hunting Ground (2015) (Links to an external site.)
Rape culture on college campuses
Intersex Documentarie
XXY (Tubi)
Intersexion: Finding a Place in a Two-Gender World (Amazon Prime)
