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Gender Troublemakers
Gender Troublemakers
	Title card
Directed by	Jeanne B.; Xanthra Phillippa MacKay;
Starring	Jeanne B.; Xanthra Phillippa MacKay; Langston;
Release date	1993;
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	$200

Gender Troublemakers is a 1993 Canadian no-budget autodocumentary^[4] by transgender activists Mirha-Soleil Ross (under the pseudonym "Jeanne B.") and Xanthra Phillippa MacKay.

The film depicts Ross and MacKay, introduced as "two gender queers, gender outlaws, trans-dykes, gender troublemakers who don't look like Tula". They interview each other in their home about their experiences with gender and sexuality, particularly in regard to passing, representation, misogyny, gay men, and attraction. It also features scenes of the couple having sex.

The film was shot on 8 mm film and financed with "their last 200 bucks".^[2]^[3]

The film has been described as one of the earliest films about transgender people for other transgender people, being frequently compared to The Crying Game as well as Ross' other works, such as Yapping Out Loud and gendertrash from hell.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

References

↑ Ross, Mirha-Soleil; McKay, Xanthra Phillippa (1993). Gender Troublemakers (Motion picture).
1 2 3 Jacques, Juliet (2018-09-27). "In Search of Gender Troublemakers". In Eric-Udorie, June (ed.). Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-349-00986-5. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
1 2 3 Salah, Trish (2013-10-30). "Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics". In Karpinski, Eva C.; Henderson, Jennifer; Sowton, Ian; Ellenwood, Ray (eds.). Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard. Wilfrid Laurier University. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-55458-863-3. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
1 2 Brodbeck, Constanze Sue (2025). Autodocumentary and Trans Depiction in Film (BFA thesis). Ohio University. Retrieved 2026-04-27.
↑ Syms, Shawn (1993-06-25). "Gendertrash and gender trouble: Transsexual video producers tell it like it is". Xtra!. No. 226. p. 37.

External links

Full movie at the Internet Archive
IMDb

[itself-1] Ross, Mirha-Soleil; McKay, Xanthra Phillippa (1993). Gender Troublemakers (Motion picture).

[jacques-2] 1 2 3 Jacques, Juliet (2018-09-27). "In Search of Gender Troublemakers". In Eric-Udorie, June (ed.). Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-349-00986-5. Retrieved 2026-04-27.

[salah-3] 1 2 3 Salah, Trish (2013-10-30). "Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics". In Karpinski, Eva C.; Henderson, Jennifer; Sowton, Ian; Ellenwood, Ray (eds.). Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard. Wilfrid Laurier University. p. 197. ISBN 978-1-55458-863-3. Retrieved 2026-04-27.

[brodbeck-4] 1 2 Brodbeck, Constanze Sue (2025). Autodocumentary and Trans Depiction in Film (BFA thesis). Ohio University. Retrieved 2026-04-27.

[syms-5] Syms, Shawn (1993-06-25). "Gendertrash and gender trouble: Transsexual video producers tell it like it is". Xtra!. No. 226. p. 37.

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