This "Gender Dysphoria: The Movie" short film (17m) is so good. Title could be better but it's a really good sort of cabaret through dysphoria: youtube.com/watch?v=Ayuqizp4fy (CW: alcohol, abuse, dysphoria)

It's by contrapoints and is definitely art by my standards it's not that kitschy For Cis People 101 stuff

spoilers for gender dysphoria: the movie 

the part that got to me the most was how the same doctor telling the protag to Be a Man is then shown in bed with the protag asking "why won't you have sex with me" "because it makes me feel like a man" "you are a man" "i don't want to feel like one" "what does that even mean"

Like, as a non-binary person as well, SO MUCH of how my gender and sexuality gets policed and judged often seems to tie into "why won't you have sex with me"

spoilers for gender dysphoria: the movie 

And it's ~problematic~ to feel like sleeping with Person Genre X makes you into Person Genre Y cuz that's heteronormative/somethingnormative but that's not how dysphoria works and it's also not how brains work. I don't *know* if it's *just* dysphoria that makes me not want to sleep with cis women or if i wouldn't want to anyway. ultimately being trans fem and nb i often feel like i need to have an Argument anyway to simply not want to have sex with someone

spoilers for gender dysphoria: the movie 

I don't even know how often someone actually *wants* to have sex with me so much as they want me to want to have sex with them so they can reject me for being a gross freakish genderthing.

spoilers for gender dysphoria: the movie 

There's also the voice one... there's a lot of good scenes in that and the way film theory is implemented like it's a cabaret it's good

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@shel the hair thing at the start was basically me up to the point where I made the call to the informed consent place

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