Media about, featuring, or made (written, directed, performed) by transmasculine people. + drag kings & crossdressing, cross-gender acting, body swapping, possession, + a handful of entries that just have heavily transmasc themes IMO (media with cis mpreg or penis transplants, “Whale Rider”, "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie".) Although I include drag, crossdressing, etc., I want to make it clear that these are NOT the same thing as being trans. I just think they're relevant.
Some entries are misleading, extremely offensive, morally/politically questionable, or just not very good.
Suggestions & corrections are welcome!
Can’t find / not on LB:
•"Fürstin Ninetta" (1893): disguise
•”Mountain Molly O’” (1926)
•"Kankatchi" (1971): male & female disguised as 'opposite' genders
•”Boku No Shotaiken" (1986): male brain transplanted into female…
Media about, featuring, or made (written, directed, performed) by transmasculine people. + drag kings & crossdressing, cross-gender acting, body swapping, possession, + a handful of entries that just have heavily transmasc themes IMO (media with cis mpreg or penis transplants, “Whale Rider”, "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie".) Although I include drag, crossdressing, etc., I want to make it clear that these are NOT the same thing as being trans. I just think they're relevant.
Some entries are misleading, extremely offensive, morally/politically questionable, or just not very good.
Suggestions & corrections are welcome!
Can’t find / not on LB:
•"Fürstin Ninetta" (1893): disguise
•”Mountain Molly O’” (1926)
•"Kankatchi" (1971): male & female disguised as 'opposite' genders
•”Boku No Shotaiken" (1986): male brain transplanted into female body
•“Zmiennicy” (1986)
•"The Comedy of Errors" (1987): 1 or 2 women play male roles
•"Love in Reverse" (1989)
•”Earth Girls are Sleazy” (1990): body swap
•“It's in the Jeans" (1990): body swap
•"Miss Cleopatra" (1990): male spirit possesses woman
•"Drag Queen Trapped in a Woman's Body" (1992)
•"Oho Naa Pellanta" (1996): disguise
•"Berta" (2003): body swap
•"Payback" (2004): man reincarnated as a woman
•"Below Deck": historical crossdressing pirates!
•“Imouto No Himitsu: Atashi, Oniichan Ga Suki” (2005): body swap
•"Леся плюс Рома" / "Леся+Рома" / "Lesya plyus Roma" / "Lesya+Roma" (2005): body swap
•”On je zena!” (2005 series)
•"Poppy dan Bobby" / "Poppy y Bobby" / "Poppy & Bobby" (2007): body swap. Remade in 2012.
•"Schastie" / "Happiness" (2007, Russia, made for TV): body swap
•"Se Eu Comesse Voce" (2009): 'porn remake' of "Se Eu Fosse Voce" (2006), a body swap movie.
•"Zoey & Joey" (2009, Malaysia?): body swap
•”Love Flower by the Edge of the Road” (2010 series)
•”Aata Ga Baya” (2011)
•"Obavva" (2011): man's ghost possesses a woman
•”Lahoo Ke Do Rang” (2012): male and female "interchange roles" (whatever that means. Do the earlier films of the same name also count here?)
•"Mister Poppy dan Miss Bobby" / "Mister Poppy & Miss Bobby" (2012): body swap. Remake of "Poppy dan Bobby" (2007).
•”Peluang Kedua" (2012): body swap
•"デイズ 私がアイツになった時…" / "Twilight File IX" (2012): body swap
•"Switch" (2013): body swap
•"Brothers" (2014): 4 transmasc main characters, played by trans actors.
•"Game of Thrones”: disguise (Arya), plus a sort-of transmasc-coded character (Brienne).
•"Jose Bukan Jesi" (2014, Indonesia): body swap
•"Ketika Kamu Adalah Aku" (2014?): body swap
•"Wo Shi Ni Shi Wo" / "I am You, You are Me" (2014, China): body swap
•”Kamu Jadi Aku, Aku Jadi Kamu" (2015): Indonesian remake of "The Hot Chick". Body swap.
•"交換第一次" / "The Adventure Of The Loser" (2016): body swap
•"FTM Transgender Short Documentary" (2016)
•"豬妖記" / "Pig Demon" (2016): body swap
•"青春禁忌遊戲" / "Qing Chun Jin Ji You Xi" / "Youth Taboo Game: Soul Exchange" (2016): body swap
•"球愛大越位" / "Qiu Ai Da Yue Wei" / "Mr & Miss Football" (2016): soul swap
•"琴場高手之靈魂暴走" / "Runaway Soul" (2016): body swap
•"降龙传说" / "The Dragon Legend" (2016): body swap
•"通靈行者之分歧" / "通灵行者之分歧" / "Tong Ling Xing Zhe Zhi Fen Qi" (2016): male possesses female
•"双生记之误入总裁身" / " 雙生記之誤入總裁身" / "Two Soul Storia" (2016): body swap
•"Visi Suli Gsurs" / "Find Your Body" (2016?): man possesses woman
•"What if I'm a boy?" (2016)
•"移魂俱乐部" / " 移魂俱樂部" / "Yi Hun Ju Le Bu" / "Soul Swap Club" (2016): body swap
•"Bang Jia Ma Yun Shang" (2017): 'transvestite', male-female body swap
•"Bian Xing Nu You" / "Changing Body to Love You" (2017): body swap
•"Chao Neng Xue Zha" / "超能學渣" (2017): body swap
•"IMPACT" (2017)
•"Cinta Pertama Pangeran Ular" (2017 series): possession
•"Destiny Rules" / "命運規則番外之時間重置" (2017): man possesses woman
•"好噠主公之邪靈之魄" / "Hao Da Zhu Gong Zhi Xie Ling Zhi Po" (2017): body swap
•"鐵鍋傳奇" / "Legend of the Iron Pan" (2017): man possesses woman
•"曼谷變身記" / "Man Gu Bian Shen Ji" (2017): body swap
•"萌鬼刺殺令" / "Meng Gui Ci Sha Ling" (2017): body swap
•"魔咒" / "Mo Zhou" / "The Curse" (2017): body swap
•"末日之恋" / "Mori Zhi Lian" / "A Love Story About the Doom" / "Doomsday Love" (2017): body swap
•"Mr. Sweetheart VS Miss Gahar" (2017, Indonesia): body swap
•"野蠻囧妃2" / "My Brutal and Playful Princess 2" (2017): disguise
•"我的星上人" / "My Dearest Love" (2017): body swap
•"男身女身" / "Nan Shen Nv Shen" (2017): body swap
•"朋友圈靈異事件" / "Peng You Quan Ling Yi Shi Jian" (2017): body swap
•"Rakshasi" (2017): male possesses female
•"痞子校花变身记" / "Street Thug Or Campus Belle" (2017): body swap
•"Susu Kedelai Penarik Arwah" (2017, Indonesia): male ghost possesses woman
•"變身愛情"/"Change Love" (2018): body swap. Same as "Bian Xing Nu You" (2017)?
•"Kasut Bola Pink" (2017): body swap
•"戀愛秘籍之換體魔戒" / "The Magic Ring Of Love" (2017): body swap
•"玄笔录前传之幻梦" / "The Prequel Of Magical Brush: Illusion" (2017): male possesses woman
•"外星痞子" / "Wai Xing Pi Zi" (2017): body swap
•"我和校花换个身体" / "我和校花換個身體" / "Wo He Xiao Hua Huan Ge Shen Ti" (2017): body swap
•"一代妖姬" / "Yi Dai Yao Ji" / "A Generation Of Fairy" (2017?): body swap
•"In my shoes" (2018)
•"暴走寡婦" / "Desperate Widow" (2018): body swap
•"都是月老惹的禍" / "Matchmaker To Blame" (2018): body swap
•"麻将街娃洪荒之战" / "Prehistoric War" (2018): male time traveller ends up in a female body
•"VISIBLE" by Nathan Cooper
•"龍轉乾坤" / "Long Zhuan Qian Kun" (2019): brief possession
•"The Change Up" dir. Carter Ray (2020)
•"The Mirror" dir. Toni Karat (2020)
•"vice versa" dir. Sage Look (2020)
•”No Doubt In Us” (2021): body swap
•”Yu lou chun” (2021)
•"Our Flag Means Death" (2022): transmasc actor/character
•"女公子男千金" / "毒王千金" / "Poison King" / "The Trans Couple" (2022): body swap
•"Dysphoria" animated short by Naja Aliffiyah 2023
•"Hello / A Transgender's Story" (2023)
•"Dans La Peau D'Un Caid" (2023): body swap
•"Gonza" (2023): body swap
•"Switch" (2023, Bangladesh): body swap
•”Ajab Ghar Ki Gajab Kahani” (2024): body swap
•"Unexpected Connection" (2024, Nigeria): body swap
•”Crossroads" (2025, USA): body swap
•”Heated Rivalry” (2025): trans actor
•"Whatever, Ever After" (2025): Everyone in the world gets gender-swapped.
•”Barry” dir. Sara Blecher: historical trans person
My other trans*-themed lists:
Research | Transfem | Nonbinary | Intersex
I kept hitting the character limit on the transfem list, so I made these other ones, in order to keep the descriptions shorter.
Adult | Crime | Military | Music | Politics | Sports
My other queer-themed (less trans*-focused) lists:
Ecoqueer | Neuroqueer | Nautical Queers
My other lists:
Adaptive Sports | Agoraphobia | Climbing / mountaineering / alpinism | early color | Eric Perlman's "Masters of Stone" | Institutionalized | Movies where they form a band
