Born in a body that we don’t feel like ourself is a big challenge that anyone is not prepared for. However, the willpower to feel good and complete is the key to overcoming any obstacle. Filipe, a 21 years old transsexual boy, is this force of nature that was born to inspire us all, transgender and cisgender. With an open heart, he tells us about his process, while showing us a little bit of his day-to-day.
Filipe Morgado Gonçalves
Born in a body that we don’t feel like ourself is a big challenge that anyone is not prepared for. However, the willpower to feel good and complete is the key to overcoming any obstacle. Filipe, a 21 years old transsexual boy, is this force of nature that was born to inspire us all, transgender and cisgender. With an open heart, he tells us about his process, while showing us a little bit of his day-to-day.
Paul, a 20 year old midwesterner, arrives at the central bus station and quickly catches eyes with Wye, a 22 year old girl voguing on the sidewalk. After Paul seeks her out in secret, an intense love between them blossoms. But when Paul discovers Wye is trans, he is forced to confront his own identity and what it means to belong.
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In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.
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Troy and his young transgender son Joe are on the run from his conservative mother in the Montana wilderness, with a detective in hot pursuit.
Lenore Miller’s size has always earned her teases and jeers in her school’s hallways, but this clothes-loving teenager is about to set the world on fire with her own line of inclusive fashion designs.