{{Infobox film | image = Gender Troublemakers titlecard.png | caption = Title card | director = {{plainlist| *Jeanne B. *Xanthra Phillippa MacKay }} | starring = {{plainlist| *Jeanne B. *Xanthra Phillippa MacKay *Langston<ref name="itself">{{Cite AV media |title=Gender Troublemakers |date=1993 |last=Ross |first=Mirha-Soleil |last2=McKay |first2=Xanthra Phillippa |type=Motion picture |language=en}}</ref> }} | released = {{Film date|1993}} | country = Canada | language = English | budget = $200<ref name="jacques">{{Cite book |last=Jacques |first=Juliet |editor-last=Eric-Udorie |editor-first=June |url=https://www.google.se/books/edition/Can_We_All_Be_Feminists/w9lSDwAAQBAJ |title=Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism |date=2018-09-27 |publisher=Little, Brown Book Group |isbn=978-0-349-00986-5 |publication-date=2018-09-27 |pages=116 |chapter=In Search of Gender Troublemakers |language=en|access-date=2026-04-27}}</ref><ref name="salah">{{Cite book |last=Salah |first=Trish |editor-last1=Karpinski |editor-first1=Eva C. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Trans_acting_Culture_Writing_and_Memory/8xraAgAAQBAJ |title=Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard |editor-last2=Henderson |editor-first2=Jennifer |editor-last3=Sowton |editor-first3=Ian |editor-last4=Ellenwood |editor-first4=Ray |date=2013-10-30 |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University |isbn=978-1-55458-863-3 |publication-date=2013-10-30 |pages=197 |chapter=Notes toward Thinking Transsexual Institutional Poetics |language=en|access-date=2026-04-27}}</ref> }}
'''''Gender Troublemakers''''' is a 1993 Canadian no-budget autodocumentary<ref name="brodbeck">{{Cite thesis |last=Brodbeck |first=Constanze Sue |title=Autodocumentary and Trans Depiction in Film |date=2025 |access-date=2026-04-27 |degree=BFA |publisher=Ohio University |url=http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1745605254889595 |language=en}}</ref> 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".<ref name="jacques"/><ref name="salah"/>
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''.<ref name="jacques"/><ref name="salah"/><ref name="brodbeck"/><ref name="syms">{{Cite magazine |last=Syms |first=Shawn |date=1993-06-25 |title=Gendertrash and gender trouble: Transsexual video producers tell it like it is |magazine=Xtra! |page=37 |issue=226}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://archive.org/details/gender-troublemakers Full movie] at the Internet Archive *[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29045136/ IMDb]
Category:Documentary films about transgender people in Canada Category:Canadian LGBTQ-related short films Category:1993 Canadian films Category:1993 documentary films Category:1993 English-language films