# What movies have transvestites? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355 "2005-11-16T18:34:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/41 "2005-11-16T22:10:52Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > Or, presumably, a woman dressed as a man (see _Life of Brian_. _Return of the King_ (Eowyn) ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/42 "2005-11-16T22:11:04Z")
and what about the Bond movie (_Goldfinger_ ) where one of the bond girls was a real post-op? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/43 "2005-11-16T22:17:01Z")
Any film version of Shakespeare’s _Twelfth Night_ or _As You Like It_. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/44 "2005-11-16T22:24:20Z")
> [@whole bean](#): > > and what about the Bond movie (_Goldfinger_ ) where one of the bond girls was a real post-op? Hey, now, that’s a whole different can of worms. Technically she wasn’t a transvestite, because she was wearing women’s clothing. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/45 "2005-11-16T22:39:57Z")
_Trick_ (“It buuuuuuuuuuurns”) ---
**Author:** ![priapus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/46 "2005-11-16T22:44:59Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Hey, now, that’s a whole different can of worms. Technically she wasn’t a transvestite, because she was wearing women’s clothing. Are you talking about For Your Eyes Only?Her name is Tula and she is a transexual ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/47 "2005-11-16T22:55:59Z")
> [@priapus](#): > > Are you talking about For Your Eyes Only?Her name is Tula and she is a transexual yeah, my bad. my lingo is off. ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/48 "2005-11-17T01:50:26Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Both Brady Bunch movies. No shit? Oh, _Mulan_ ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/49 "2005-11-17T04:30:48Z")
**And Justice For All** (a small role but very powerful character) **Kids In The Hall** (the office girls, played for laughs. As much as I love Monty Python, the Kids did women better than anyone, ever, IMO) Women as men: **The Ballad of Little Jo** (woman dressing as man to survive in the Wild West) **Boys Don’t Cry** ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/50 "2005-11-17T04:56:43Z")
I disagree that _The Crying Game_ and _Boys Don’t Cry_ are about transvestites. Dil in TCG was female-identified, likewise Brandon in BDC was male-identified. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/51 "2005-11-17T05:29:38Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > **Kids In The Hall** (the office girls, played for laughs. As much as I love Monty Python, the Kids did women better than anyone, ever, IMO) Do they (or Monty Python, or the Shakespeare plays) count? In all of those cases, you have actors dressed as women, but the characters aren’t transvestite. The characters are women. You just have men playing the female roles. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/52 "2005-11-17T06:07:18Z")
Did anyone mention _Shrek 2_ yet? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/53 "2005-11-17T06:32:26Z")
In the ‘cross-dressing’ camp : **Just One of the Guys** Haven’t seen **Ma Vie en Rose** , though I think that’s arguably transexual (about a child). There used to be a very complete list of transexual & transvestite movies on someone’s website, but I think it’s disappeared now. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/54 "2005-11-17T07:23:32Z")
Mondo Trasho, Female Trouble, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/55 "2005-11-17T07:29:05Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > **Kids In The Hall** (the office girls, played for laughs. As much as I love Monty Python, the Kids did women better than anyone, ever, IMO) I doubt that the Pythons were really trying to portray realistic women; they were just following old music hall tradition. When they needed a real sexy woman, they used one (Rita Davies, Connie Booth, Carol Cleveland, and Mrs. Idle, among others). I suppose they did it more because they knew the tone of the scene as they wanted it played, so they did it themselves. Not many of their one-off guest-star actresses ever really _got_ the Python tone right until Carol. (I keep thinking of that awful overacting blonde in the ‘Blancmanges from Andromeda’ sketch opposite Graham Chapman in the laboratory.) Except in one scene (dinner with Death, _Monty Python’s Meaning of Life_) they never really ever tried, or had the budget to try. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/56 "2005-11-17T12:25:26Z")
> [@Captain Amazing](#): > > Do they (or Monty Python, or the Shakespeare plays) count? In all of those cases, you have actors dressed as women, but the characters aren’t transvestite. The characters are women. You just have men playing the female roles. Shakespeare plays are full of women pretending to be men. It definitely counts. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/57 "2005-11-17T13:46:14Z")
> [@Peter Morris](#): > > Shakespeare plays are full of women pretending to be men. It definitely counts. Yeah, in fact I forgot a couple. _Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline,_ and _Midsummer Night’s Dream_. Although in the last, it’s a man dressing up as a woman (in the “Pyramus and Thisbe” scene). ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/58 "2005-11-17T15:13:29Z")
Here’s a pretty complete list: [http://members.fortunecity.com/jayekayetv/tmovies/](http://members.fortunecity.com/jayekayetv/tmovies/) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/59 "2005-11-17T16:14:06Z")
Some anime titles with cross-dressers: Fruits Baskets (Ritsu Sohma) Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi (Aki) Tokyo Godfathers (Hana) ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355/60 "2005-11-17T16:28:19Z")
One more: Momiji Sohma in Fruits Basket, who (at the age of 15) must be one of the youngest cross-dressers around. He wears the girls’ uniform to high school, and also has the unusual characteristic that his mother does not know that he is her son. (He knows she is his mother, however). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-have-transvestites/331355.md?page=4)