Trappings of Transhood

1997, 27 minutes
There is a black and white filter over the image. There are two people looking into the camera standing back to chest. The one on the left has their back against the chest of the one on the right. The right one has their hand on the right shoulder of the left one. The one on the left is holding a gun and pointing it at the camera wearing a black leather jacket with a furry collar. They have short slicked back hair and a goatee. The one on the right has short black hair with the sides faded and wearing a black jacket and a black t shirt underneath.
Genre
documentary   music/musical   short (less than 45 min)  
Keywords/themes
rockumentary   fag   gender identity   transgender   rock and roll   music   trans men   FTM (female-to-male)   butch   dyke   transition   Black people   trans men   POC (people of colour)   Asian   queer  
Media type
film/video  
Country of origin

United States of America

Technical specs

Colour

Languages

English/English

Content Warnings
police, transphobia
Images
There is a black and white filter over the image. There are two people looking into the camera standing back to chest. The one on the left has their back against the chest of the one on the right. The right one has their hand on the right shoulder of the left one. The one on the left is holding a gun and pointing it at the camera wearing a black leather jacket with a furry collar. They have short slicked back hair and a goatee. The one on the right has short black hair with the sides faded and wearing a black jacket and a black t shirt underneath.
Description

Trannyboyz, fagdykes, FTMs, transbutches and transfags strut-out and speak out in this documentary which challenges our notions of gender and sexuality.

A doc and rockumentary on gender identity.

“The 10th Annual Vancouver Queer Film & Video Festival.” Out On Screen & Video In Studios, 1998.

[unclear/blacked out]... children, one of whom rejected him after he would not attend her wedding as her mother. Ted, an ex-seminary student who unsuccessfully sought self acceptance as a woman through religion before deciding to transition. Stephen, a San Franciscan police officer who transitioned on the job. Max, a writer and the star of Treut's film, James a leader in the FTM community and editor of the International FTM Newsletter and photographer and body builder Loren, author of Body Alchemy.

Black and Asian trans-men of various identification and stages of transition talk about queering gender and about sex.

“The First International Transgender Film & Video Festival Program.” London: Alchemy and Transmutation, 1997. Personal Archives.
Cast & Crew
Crew
Distribution
Distributors
Screenings

  • Counting Past 2 1997

    September 12, 1997 7:00 PM

    Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M4Y 1B4  (in-person)