FTM Movies for Parents

[JaredLeBlanc]

I love Transamerica, Tomboy, Romeos and Boys Don't Cry. They are all amazing movies.

Tomboy seems so real and the young actress who played the lead  part seemed so real! She was totally and completely amazing to the point where i started thinking that she might really be a FTM. She was very young back then (10-11 years old) but i could still feel this movie meant so much to her. I don't know what her future holds, she is still very young right now but i am sure she has a bright one ahead of her.

Romeos was a great movie too, although i didn't really like the fact that it wasn't a girl who played the part of a trans guy, it was actually a guy who did this. This was a bit confusing and it didn't make it easier to watch this movie when you knew that it was a cis-guy. Anyway, i enjoyed this movie and the storyline is inspiring. It tells about this trans guy who is gay. He is into guys and his best friend tells him that it would have been so much easier for him to find the right guy had he stayed a girl. But he refused to be a girl because he had never been one. I love this movie!

[Natkat]

I wouldn't let my parents watch Tomboy for various reasons--subtitles (some people don't like foreign films), child nudity, the fact that the kid IS a child (some will say s/he can't know at that age), and my biggest objection, the ambiguity of the ending. In addition, I felt that the mother was outright cruel, and (because my own mother was abusive) I would not want to imply through the movie that I saw any parallels. At any rate, I really do want documentaries that actually explain things.

I have my own reasons for not wanting to see Call Me Malcolm, and I will not discuss them publicly. For one thing, I really have no desire to watch more trans documentaries for myself--I've seen enough. But I'm pretty darned sure that my mother would never put up with a movie about ANYONE in the United Church of Christ, especially a pastor. My brother says that my mother hasn't changed since I lived at home, and she was intolerant of many religions back then, especially those that didn't fit into her idea of the mainstream. I every reason to believe that she would not be able to focus on the trans content of the movie.

I just saw all my links exept for sex lies and gender do not put up with your demands

Romeo is german,nobody pass perfectly and man without penis are all subtitled unless you understand german,norwegian or danish.
also Nobody pass perfectly got nude scene, not with children but if your mom is sensetive about it I think she may be disturbed.

sex and lies are english but again try watch it before hand see if your think your mom could watch it, the fact about intersex and surgery is abit harsh to swallow.

[Arch]

sex and lies are english but again try watch it before hand see if your think your mom could watch it, the fact about intersex and surgery is abit harsh to swallow.

Yeah, I need to avoid anything graphic. My mother voted against the nude beach here and is very uptight.

[Natkat]

Yeah, I need to avoid anything graphic. My mother voted against the nude beach here and is very uptight.

okay general,

a great transmovie who invold:

* No other languarge than english
* no transchildren invold
* no nudety
* and not something who could seam graphicly disturbing
* and no christianety things going on

pfff.. it started getting difficult.

the transgender taboo???

[JaredLeBlanc]

Have you ever seen "I am Jazz"? --->>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk_YlBM5JAE


This is a documentary about a very young MTF girl. She is 14 years old at the moment i think, but she was 11 or 12 at the time when this documentary was being made. And trust me, this video is absolutely amazing. Her parents are so supportive of her and she is a truly beautiful girl!

You can also watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pRt9pxmP0s

This is about this young 14 or 15 years old FTM guy named Kade. His parents can't understand his situation at all and they call him a lesbian which is very upsetting to him and not true at all! His sister is ashamed of him too and can't support him cos she still thinks he is her sister and not her brother (a very stupid and narrow minded sister, i should say). But he has some good friends that do support him and can see him as a guy and not a girl!

[MaximmusFlavius]

Depending on how much spare time you have and your skill level, have you thought of taking interviews from different documentaries that you like or think get the message across and compiling your own 'documentary'? I find I like some aspects of each documentary but hate other parts. And depending on the person, some people can only pick out the negatives and see what they want and miss the what you want them to get out of it completely.

My Transsexual Summer was a series that channel 4 (UK) aired a while back. I thought most of it was well done, but one or two points weren't so good. It did have packer, phalloplasty and surgery scenes (by the sounds of it not suitable for what you want). It will probably take some hunting around on the net to view it outside of the UK.

[aleon515]

I love Transamerica, Tomboy, Romeos and Boys Don't Cry. They are all amazing movies.

Tomboy seems so real and the young actress who played the lead  part seemed so real! She was totally and completely amazing to the point where i started thinking that she might really be a FTM. She was very young back then (10-11 years old) but i could still feel this movie meant so much to her. I don't know what her future holds, she is still very young right now but i am sure she has a bright one ahead of her.

Tomboy is, afaik, totally a fictional story so what happens to the young actress-- she goes on to make other movies. The writer may have known transgender people-- she will not talk about what the ending means. The character can't think of the female name, is just that, a character. The ending is the problem (as well as some French captioned movie aspects) because it implies the female to male transgender children will grow up happy as their birth sex if they are treated with humiliation (such as being paraded around the neighborhood in a dress when their transgender explorations are discovered. A very problematic message!!!

I think aware parents who get their child's trans state would be pretty horrified with the mom's response. I have never heard about this really but am guessing so.

But as to this being any kind of real story of an actual person, to my knowledge it isn't.


--Jay

[Arch]

I think aware parents who get their child's trans state would be pretty horrified with the mom's response. I have never heard about this really but am guessing so.

I don't know about parental reactions, but I had an extremely strong reaction when I saw how the mother was in that movie. It reminded me of a time my mother brought out two bags of my brother's hand-me-downs that my grandparents had been storing for a few years. The clothes were supposedly for me; I was six or seven and saw all of those shirts and pants and thought I'd gone to heaven.

Then she said to pick out one shirt and one pair of pants. That was all she would allow me to have; the rest was going to charity. I fought her on it, but I knew I couldn't win. I never won against her. This was one of the defining moments of my life, and I still resent my mother for bullying me over those stupid clothes. Watching the film brought it all back...I had gone only because I wanted to do something nice for my trans friend...and I sat there fuming and shaking over the injustice of what that mother was doing on screen and what my mother had done in real life. I was my own person, even then, Mother Dearest; why didn't you try LISTENING for a change? Oh, yeah, that's right--your specialty is the silent treatment and ignoring whatever/whomever you don't like.

And now I'm derailing my own thread. Anyway, I think that the National Geographic special and Trans are probably my best bets.

[aleon515]

I don't know about parental reactions, but I had an extremely strong reaction when I saw how the mother was in that movie. It reminded me of a time my mother brought out two bags of my brother's hand-me-downs that my grandparents had been storing for a few years. The clothes were supposedly for me; I was six or seven and saw all of those shirts and pants and thought I'd gone to heaven.

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And now I'm derailing my own thread. Anyway, I think that the National Geographic special and Trans are probably my best bets.

My parents weren't like this, but let's say it was different times. I found it triggering in a certain way though. I had a hard time with it. I am just guessing re: parents who are aware and highly supportive. I know a parent of a 9 year old transboy. I am sure she would be furious. The thing great about National Geo. is that they are used to showing to a diverse population. I really like Trans the movie. Just with the proviso on TDOR.


--Jay