trans woman

Pushed further for clarification on whether a trans woman should use the men's or women's toilets, she repeated: "The ruling is clear."

"It is a risk to now come over and especially as a trans woman," she said.

Luminous, candid and brimming with thought-provoking contradictions, this concise cinematic portrait introduces a non-conforming family in Mexico City where a spiritually minded, disarmingly charming trans woman, Melisa Hackerman, functions as father figure to five children and romantic partner to Claudia, a cisgender woman with traditional views on womanhood.

“Coming out as a trans woman was a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders. Now I know who I am as an entertainer. I know who I am as a queen. I know who I am as a person and I’m coming full force,” she said in her first confessional.

According to the report, there was one death of a trans woman in 2024 and the remaining 63 deaths were men.