Trans Awareness Week

BOOKS. FILMS. TV SHOWS. PODCASTS.

This Is How It Always Is By Laurie Frankel

BOOKS

A novel about revelations, transformations, fairy tales, and family. This book is about the ways this is how it always is. Change is always hard and miraculous and hard again, parenting is always a leap into the unknown with crossed fingers and full hearts, and children grow but not always according to plan.

The Transgender Issue. An Argument for Justice This book is a landmark work that signals the beginning of a new, healthier conversation about trans life. It is a manifesto for change and a call for justice and solidarity between all marginalised people and minorities.

The Matrix Trilogy

FILMS

Directed by the Wschowzki sisters. Both are trans women who directed it pre-transition.

Tangerine A great film shot entirely on an iPhone, topics around gender and gives queer creatives a platform to make a film without a Hollywood budget.

The Death and Life of Marsha it’s an amazing documentary about the Stonewall riots and trans activism.

The Danish Girl Eddie Redmayne plays a closest trans woman in the mid-1920’s.

Disclosure A look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of those stories on trans lives and American culture.

Pose

TV SHOWS

In the New York of the late '80s and early '90s, this is a story of ball culture and the gay and trans community, the raging AIDS crisis, and capitalism.

Louis Theroux – Transgender kids Louis travels to San Francisco where medical professionals are helping children with gender dysphoria transition from boy to girl or girl to boy.

Sex Education Now on its 4th season, Sex Education follows the lives of the teenagers and adults in the fictional town of Moordale as they contend with various personal dilemmas, often related to sexual intimacy.

Euphoria A look at life for a group of high school students as they grapple with issues of drugs, sex, and violence.

Heartstopper Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

The T Pod The T pod is the podcast that aims to tell the real stories of real Transgender people in their own words.

PODCASTS

FO FQ (Fascinatingly Odd, Fascinatingly Queer) This podcast hosts guests speakers who talk about a wide range of issues that affect the queer and LGBT+ community.

Pride & Joy

PODCASTS

Freddy McConnell is a transgender man and single dad.

In this podcast, he's talking to other queers who are finding ways to make their dreams of parenthood.

Gender Reveal Gender Reveal is a podcast that centers nonbinary, transgender, and queer folks. They interview LGBTQ+ artists, activists, and educators; answer listener questions; analyze current events; and get a little bit closer to understanding what the heck gender is.

The Transgender Show Every week on The Transgender Show, Emily interviews members of the greater trans community as well as friends, family and allies.