Dvanáct let po smrti manželky, jež zahynula v explodujícím autě, se renomovanému plastickému chirurgovi Robertu Ledgardovi (Antonio Banderas) podařilo vyvinout odolný typ kůže, který by byl býval jeho milovanou zachránil. Šarmantní muž posedlý ideou, jež sahá za hranice bioetiky, se nenechá spoutat skrupulemi ani v okamžiku, kdy se rozhodne svůj vynález testovat.
Když se nájemný vrah pobere a zjistí, že prodělal operativní změnu pohlaví, začne hledat lékaře, který operaci provedl.
Walt Koontz (Robert De Niro) skončí kvůli mrtvici s ochrnutými hlasivkami a musí chodit na hlasovou terapii ke svému sousedovi Rustymu (Philip Seymour Hoffman), který je transvestita. Walt nesnáší homosexuály a Rusty pohrdá omezeným myšlením svého klienta...
Příběh dvou mužů, které nehoda jednoho dne svede dohromady. Walt Koontz (Robert De Niro) je konzervativní newyorský policista a hrdina ověnčený medailí za statečnost. Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman) je nápadný transvestita, která se připravuje na operaci změny pohlaví. Oba dva žijí ve stejném domě a oba dva na sebe chrlí jen nadávky. Pak ale Walta raní mrtvice a v rámci rehabilitační terapie musí navštěvovat hodiny zpěvu u Rustyho...
Elvira Weishaupt, once a burly working-class butcher, has made an enormous sacrifice for love. She has undergone a sex change for a romantic interest who has abandoned her, and she now must struggle to reconcile her past life with her present identity.
Kniha Roberta Louise Stevensona Podivný případ Dr. Jekylla a pana Hyda se dočkala velkého množství adaptací. Některé z nich jsou hodně neobvyklé, naše je ale ta z roku 1971, v níž se doktor Jekyll mění v sexy slečnu Hydeovou, která melouchaří jako Jack Rozparovač!
Thajské akční drama natočené podle skutečných událostí vypráví o slavném transgender kickboxerovi, který bojoval jako chlap, ale v srdci chtěl být ženou. Parinya Charoenphol (v Thajsku známý pod pseudonymem Nong Toom) věří, že je uvězněn v mužském těle, ale přesto se stane mistrem v nejdrsnějším sportu - v thajském kickboxu. Nejdříve považuje kickbox za dobrý způsob, jak získat peníze pro rodinu, a posléze je pro něho sportem, díky němuž je schopen prozkoumávat vlastní ženskost. Sledujeme jeho dětství, dospívání, kdy putoval zemí jako mnich, i tvrdé dny strávené boxem. Film byl natáčen v devíti thajských provinciích a v Tokiu a samozřejmě nechybí ani strhující utkání, při nichž hrdina poslal k zemi řadu svých protivníků.
In the first person, a documentary that shows us the experience of Vida Rodriguez, formerly Inocente Duke, in situations that the Trans Law favors: what happens when entering a sauna, locker room, or a public service (even in the Congress of Deputies). An experience that, with respect and large doses of humor, brings us face to face with a law and its difficulties in its implementation.
A seventeen-year-old boy follows the painful path to discovering that he is transsexual.
The film tells the story of Matt, a male hockey player who dies in a game and comes back to life as Sara Bryan, a female figure skater due to an accident made by an angel that caused the hockey player to die. Both share the dream of competing in the Winter Olympics. The male hockey player specified that if he returned to earth, he wanted to have a chance to win an Olympic Gold medal on ice leaving the detail that he wanted to be on the hockey team implied. With time running short Matt has to get skating lessons from Sara's one-time rival if he wishes to earn gold.
Teenager Anna falls in love with and gives her womanhood to the middle-aged womanizer Eric who promises her marriage. Upon her brother's insistence to meet the man, she realizes then that Eric is married and eventually commits suicide. Outraged, Martin (brother), who is a sex-change surgeon, abducted and performed an operation on Eric. Shameful of his inadequacy, Eric evades his wife's sexual needs and sexual attractions to other women.
Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living with his new family for years, Hank announces that he's getting a sex change operation. The family deserts Hank, with Jessica going her own way and Sebastian staying with his mom. But Joan becomes an alcoholic, so Sebastian moves back in with Hank — now Henrietta — who turns out to be far more supportive than anyone else.
When a young hippie couple enters an upper-class mansion, a carousel of sex and misunderstandings awaits.
The unbelievable story of 22 year old Or, who secretly finances his sex change operation in Thailand by lying to his conservative parents and then returns home as a woman to face her new life, her family and the cost of living her dream
Sora and Umi (both played by Lee Tae-kyung) who were born to a Japanese father and a Korean mother and raised in South Korea. Sora now lives in Shanghai and works as an illustrator. When she meets a Japanese guy named Mochizuki, they become close. This is when her sibling Umi visits. Umi was born inter-sex and had undergone gender reassignment surgery to become a woman. Umi encourages Sora and Mochizuki to fall in love, but Sora becomes mentally unstable.
Pioneering trans writer Max Wolf Valerio talks about his life and experience of transition in this groundbreaking documentary short, one of the very first portraits of a trans man on film, directed and produced by noted filmmaker Monika Treut.
Rich Bradford seems like your everyday great boyfriend. He has a good job, a nice car and the perfect girlfriend, Amanda. What she doesn't know about him is that he is only after one thing. His best friend Stu from college days knows how much of a womanizer Rich really is. When the day comes that Rich thinks he is finally going to romance Amanda, he is interrupted by her gay friend David who walks in on them. The same day he is dumped by Amanda is Rich and Stu's fraternity reunion. How can Rich go alone? All of his fraternity brothers always saw him with a girl. Stu on the other hand gets a visit from an old fraternity brother he has kept in contact with over the years. Much to Stu's surprise, when the brother comes, he is now a beautiful woman, Erica. Stu brings Erica to the reunion and she catches Rich's eye. Will Rich finally get his just desserts or will he realize in time that his dream girl used to be a man?
Ricardo was once Sara, a homeless HIV positive transvestite, living in the underbelly of Manhattan. Today he is a churchgoing, married man, "saved" by a Dallas ministry. He has renounced his homosexuality, but is his conversion complete? Susana Aiken and Carlos Aparicio offer an intimate look at Ricardo's transformation.
Jana says goodbye to her band members, friends, ex-girlfriend and her family. They all share a feeling of regret saying goodbye to her, but also joy for her bright future in Michigan, where she's going on post graduate studies. Only her sister knows a secret, that Jana is not going away to study, Jana is going away to have her sex change. These are her two days to say goodbye to her life.
Pidgeon Pagonis, a lead activist and educator from the intersex community, crusades for body autonomy and the freedom to choose one’s own path.