The Danish Girl
When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. From TMDB
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60 of 99 · most liked firstDanish painter Gerda Wegener often portrayed her partner Lili Elbe (below left). Lili was also an artist (below right) who ceased painting after transition and was the subject of the film 'The Danish Girl'
unlabelledView post →This is exactly what happened with Eddie Redmayne. When he was promoting The Danish Girl it was all about talking to trans people and learning where his film succeeded or failed and then he lost his Oscar and it's "people are so mean to JK Rowling" WE DON'T TRUST YOU PEOPLE
unlabelledView post →Transgender people are NOT some modern invention. We have always existed, and surgical and hormonal transition has been possible for a hundred years. That we now know of this history is owed in part to the artist Lili Elbe, whose life was made into the film The Danish Girl. But she wasn’t first (3)
unlabelledView post →see i dont normally watch like, "trans stuff" like i watch very few trans creators on youtube (like can count on one hand probably) and ive never seen Sense 8 or Tangerine or The Danish Girl (i did love Stephen Dorff as Candy Darling in I Shot Andy Warhol but thats not a trans movie lol) (5/x)
unlabelledView post →I think I hate this book almost as much as I hate the movie The Danish Girl.
unlabelledView post →Whenever a new movie with Man or Woman in its title comes out we should just go around asking cis men/women "oh my gosh have you seen [movie] yet? It's so exciting that you're being represented" the same way we get asked about the Danish Girl
unlabelledView post →I've never seen the movie "The Danish Girl". I was thinking about downloading it to watch. Then I came across a hard to find copy of this book. Think I'll read about her instead.
unlabelledView post →I recently read a little about trans Danish artist Lili Elbe, the subject of the 2015 film The Danish Girl, and I discovered this lovely painting she created a century ago on the island of Capri. #Art #EndHate
unlabelledView post →Movies and tv I watched in November: Patlabor: The Movie (1989) The Night Manager, miniseries (2016) Slow Horses, season 5 The Summer Hikaru Died, season 1 The Danish Girl Landscape Artist of the Year, series 8 (2018) 1/2 📽 📺
unlabelledView post →I think the only reason this is an easier target is because…well it’s also just a very misguided movie overall. Like The Danish Girl is worse representation, but it’s more…by the book. Emilia Perez is trying to do so much and failing so badly, that it turns into a spectacle.
unlabelledView post →For Trans Day of Visibility, I’ll share some of my personal journey. In 2015, I took myself to see The Danish Girl over the holidays and was immediately struck by it. I know it’s controversial but that film helped me so much in questioning my gender and feeling like I’d been represented onscreen.
unlabelledView post →“Reclining Nude (Lili Elbe),” (1929 Watercolor on paper) by Gerda Wegener (Den.) Lili was one of the first trans women to have gender-affirming surgery. Her wife, Gerda, was a major Art Deco artist. The movie The Danish Girl is based on their story. #gayart #gayartist #queerart #queerartist
unlabelledView post →Doubly galling as most people don’t even know her name. She’s just the Danish Girl after that shitty book written by a cishet and it’s equally shitty cishet film adaptation.
unlabelledView post →oh god, the LGBTQ group at my last job wanted to do a film/book club and their first pick was The Danish Girl. i had to very delicately explain that it was nice that they wanted to choose "something trans" but that really was not the right film to watch unless they wanted to hear me savage it.
unlabelledView post →I'm not an Emilia Perez defender by any means (though Zoe is incredible in it and would deserve to win), but people comparing it to The Danish Girl is a bizarre choice when the movie actually stars and got the first Best Actress nomination for a trans woman.
unlabelledView post →Interesting Art This is an interesting one. Have you ever seen the movie the Danish Girl? It’s an about the first man (Einar Wegener) to transition into a woman (Lili Elbe).This painting is done by her wife Gerda Wegener and the subject was done during the transition.
unlabelledView post →The Danish Girl is a novel (turned into a movie) about a transgender woman based on the true story of Lili Elbe, who was born in 1882 and fully transitioned in 1930. Just because you don’t know about it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
unlabelledView post →Pick a movie. And then swap one actor for Con O’Neill. Nothing else changes. Lines are all the same. What movie and who are you swapping? For me, The Danish Girl. Con would be Lili. I’d cry even harder at the end! But he would have been wonderful.
unlabelledView post →so uhh i agree that as a film The Danish Girl is better than Emelia Perez, but it unfortunately cast a cis guy in a role that should have absolutely been played by a trans actress.
unlabelledView post →The Danish Girl is a very good choice! I say Sweeney Todd. Replace Johnny Depp with Con and the film will become more gritty and sexually charged. Con did say he wanted to play in the musical, but felt he didn't have the range. If Russell Crowe can play Inspector Javert, Con can play Sweeney!
unlabelledView post →why did people not expect Wuthering Heights (2026) to be ass? The director starred in The Danish Girl (one of many shitty films about trans people), and directed Saltburn (yet another shitty film about class). I expected nothing more than pure sewage in the shape of a motion picture.
unlabelledView post →Like, there's a lot to criticize about Emilia Perez. It's a big mess of a movie with some transgressive baggage, but it does not have The Danish Girl problem.
unlabelledView post →Can I share my most cringe response? Pre-cracking me got hard during The Danish Girl in the first scene she dressed up. God, what a bad fucking movie. Eddie Redmayne did look fishier than me, though.
unlabelledView post →For all del. Også ikke perfekte serier fungerer positivt. Filmen "The Danish Girl", en film det kan reises en serie innvendinger mot, fikk et par gamle venner av meg til å se meg på en helt ny, og positiv måte.
unlabelledView post →1! Thought he sucked in the Les Mis movie 2! Tried to defend J.K. Rowling against the "vitriol" that was directed at her when she started really going mask off with her transphobia 3! Has an Oscar but starred in "The Danish Girl" after Jared Leto won for playing trans because he wanted another one
unlabelledView post →🎂 Happy Birthday, Alicia Vikander! Your favorite Alicia Vikander movie... that isn't Ex Machina or The Danish Girl. Go. 🎬 More on Alicia Vikander: https://todayinmovies.com/actor/alicia-vikander #TodayInMovies #FamousBirthdays
unlabelledView post →One that particularly bugs me is the Danish Girl. Written by a cis guy, turned in to a movie by cis guys, acted by cis guys. Not a trans person in sight to point out the entire thing is wall to wall chaser energy
unlabelledView post →Film: Star Wars 3 Revenge of the Sith and The Danish Girl Game: Mass Effect Trilogy, Dragon Age Inquisition, Alice Madness Returns, Saints Row the Third Book: Six of Crows Duology (esp Six of Crows, but both books honestly)
unlabelledView post →Check out the movie "The Danish Girl," if you haven't seen it already. It concerns Lili Elbe, who was also an early patient of Dr. Hirschfeld, soon after Richter.
unlabelledView post →barely existed 20 years ago? All critic about the movie aside - has she never heard of The Danish Girl and what it was based on?
unlabelledView post →Watching "The Danish Girl". Eddie Redmayne is strikingly beautiful. I find even more beautiful he regrets making the movie now because a transwoman should have been cast as Lili Wegener. ✨
unlabelledView post →Monday #score. ‘To Dresden’ by Alexander Desplat from the #movie #soundtrack ‘The Danish Girl’. #alexandredesplat #music #oscars
unlabelledView post →If they don't cast a trans person to play Link in the movie it will be The Danish Girl all over again.
unlabelledView post →Lili Elbe, 1926. She was one of the first known people to have gender-affirming surgeries, but her recordings, along other of the research and work of Magnus Hirschfeld, were burned by nazis. Her story inspired the movie The Danish Girl (2015) decades later. www.reddit.com/r/Historical...
unlabelledView post →Wait, which movie are you talking about, if not The Danish Girl?
unlabelledView post →Also really disliked Promising Young Woman 🫣. And just googled it and she's apparently an actress in The Danish Girl???? I hated that film so much 😭
unlabelledView post →LGBTQ Pride, the artists. American/French Romaine Brooks. Americans David Wojnarowicz & Ellen Day Hale Danish Lili Elbe. Subject of the film “The Danish Girl”. #LGBTQHistory #GayBooks #LGBTQArtists
unlabelledView post →I wonder if she knows Redmayne starred in "The Danish Girl" a film about a man who transitions to a woman. Given her loathing for the transgender community it's a bold choice. www.imdb.com/title/tt0810...
unlabelledView post →DO YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER OWNED A BLAHAJ DO YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER JERKED OFF AFTER DRINKING A MONSTER ENERGY DO YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE MOVIE THE DANISH GIRL WITHOUT SHAKING YOUR HEAD AND HRRK-ING EVERY TIME HE CROSS DRESSES
unlabelledView post →After turning off The Danish Girl last night, I decided to watch the most recent Hellraiser film with Jamie Clayton as Pinhead. Even though the trans woman was playing an evil sado-masochistic torture demon it was still better trans representation than The Danish Girl.
unlabelledView post →Any good trans movie recommendations? A person can only watch Boys Don’t Cry and The Danish Girl so many times(bonus points if the actor is actually trans)
unlabelledView post →Is it worse than The Danish Girl? That was another trans focused movie that only the Oscars seemed to like.
unlabelledView post →Lili passed away 3 months after her transplant surgery after a fifth operation caused infection. She was just 48. Her current tombstone was erected in 2016 by the production company of The Danish Girl film. 10/12
unlabelledView post →Vejle is also a good place to visit, it’s the birthplace of Lili Elbe, who was Inaccurately portrayed in the movie The Danish Girl
unlabelledView post →Tonight’s movie will be The Danish Girl A love 💕 story inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe & Gerda Wegener
unlabelledView post →Graf's 1st film was abt his #TransMaleTransition He was part of the White House's 1st trans-specific event: a 2015 Q&A showing of The Danish Girl w/ POTUS Obama. He's written for Cosmopolitan, BOYZ & Gay Star News, was 1st trans man on cover of QX & featd on Attitude, Diva, LGBT Weekly & FTM Mag 3/6
unlabelledView post →The Danish Girl was directed by Tom Hooper and written by Lucinda Coxen. Emerald Fennell was an actress in that film.
unlabelledView post →Incredible how many decades of #trans-healthcare (since 1930's; see "The Danish Girl" movie) gets wiped away by unqualified quacks and anti-Trans-agenda activists! We're under relentless Federal assault, and what does The Mainstream Media say about it? *cricket sounds* #TransHatred #EndTransHatred
unlabelledView post →Open to anyone who wants to play. Road trip: TV/Movies Post 4 scenes, the location, and the movie/show they take place in. Copenhagen - A Fortunate Man Copenhagen - The Danish Girl Aarhus/Ebeltoft - A Beautiful Life Babenhausen - Ehrengard @babysip.bsky.social
unlabelledView post →I would argue Alicia Vikander is lead in The Danish Girl too. Also nominated for the wrong film, but that's beside the point.
unlabelledView post →This is probably a good time to remind people that the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft pretty much said all the above until the Nazis burned it down. While the Danish Girl book and film should have gone on that pyre instead, back then it was common to diagnose us as a variety of intersex.
unlabelledView post →I think THE DANISH GIRL is a spiritually evil movie, and yet I love Alexandre Desplat's score.
unlabelledView post →I have gay & intersex family + I've had a number of gay & bi friends, coworkers, & acquaintances. I was taught at home, mostly by default, that human gender expression/sexual orientation is a natural spectrum. I 💯 believe The Danish Girl (movie) helped me get a better understanding of 🏳️⚧️ folks.✌️😊
unlabelledView post →The 4th episode (of 1st season) is easily one the best trans representations in tv/film I've ever seen. Both The Danish Girl and (especially) Emilia Pérez are absolute trash by comparison. m.youtube.com/watch?v=vivB...
unlabelledView post →Is that not the same clinic from the movie ‘The Danish Girl’ with Eddie Redmayne? I’m so glad someone was able to tell Lili Elbe’a story.
unlabelledView post →Haha, American trans movie set in Denmark, “The Danish Girl”, had scenes set in my old home town Vejle… except the producers thought Vejle looked too boring and flat, so they went to Norway and filmed a town in a Fjord with mountains and shit.
unlabelledView post →The movie, The Danish Girl (2015) was a fictionalized account of this woman's life.
unlabelledView post →Didn't the Institute also feature in The Danish Girl movie? - but again, how far would people really register the wider story beyond Elbe's particular one? The film clip of the burning of the books and records by the Nazis does seem to get circulated, with the attribution to its being the Institut.
unlabelledView post →kinda fucked up how The Danish Girl starring Eddie Redmayne is bad trans representation, but also 10 years later I don't think you could release that movie at all it'd be too controversial to release a movie that humanizes trans women like that even if you get cis men to play us
unlabelledView post →In this episode, Lady Petra and SafferMaster discuss "The Danish Girl", a true story told in a 2015 movie over a glass of Glen Fohdry Dublaich Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whiskey. www.buzzsprout.com/962578/13614...
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