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gender dysphoria is mentioned earlier in the same sentence


* TransTribulations: Lara is a transgender girl. She is publicly humiliated at school when a teacher asks if the other girls are upset by the fact that she uses the girls' changing-room. Later, her classmates force her to show her penis. Yet, her most important problem is her gender dysphoria: she is obsessed by the fact that her breasts do no develop and she self-harms because she has gender dysphoria about her body.

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* TransTribulations: Lara is a transgender girl. She is publicly humiliated at school when a teacher asks if the other girls are upset by the fact that she uses the girls' changing-room. Later, her classmates force her to show her penis. Yet, her most important problem is her gender dysphoria: she is obsessed by the fact that her breasts do no develop and she self-harms because she has gender dysphoria about her body.self-harms.
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* ComingOfAgeStory: Lara is 15 years old. Over the course of the film, she makes a lot of efforts to become a profesional dancer. She has a first sexual experience. She has disagreements with her dad. She is depressed because she does not accept her body.

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* ComingOfAgeStory: Lara is 15 years old. Over the course of the film, she makes a lot of efforts to become a profesional dancer. She has a first sexual experience. She has disagreements with her dad. She is depressed because she does not accept has gender dysphoria about her body.



* TransTribulations: Lara is a transgender girl. She is publicly humiliated at school when a teacher asks if the other girls are upset by the fact that she uses the girls' changing-room. Later, her classmates force her to show her penis. Yet, her most important problem is her gender dysphoria: she is obsessed by the fact that her breasts do no develop and she self-harms because she does not accept her body.

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* TransTribulations: Lara is a transgender girl. She is publicly humiliated at school when a teacher asks if the other girls are upset by the fact that she uses the girls' changing-room. Later, her classmates force her to show her penis. Yet, her most important problem is her gender dysphoria: she is obsessed by the fact that her breasts do no develop and she self-harms because she does not accept has gender dysphoria about her body.
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* {{Transgender}}: Lara is a 15-year-old transgender girl.
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* ParentWithNewParamour: Lara's mother is missing and her father starts dating Christine.
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* CreepyBallet: The [[TrainingFromHell intensive ballet training]] puts a high strain on Lara's body, which makes her gender dysphoria worse. The school is also very selective, which causes an additional mental stress. Moreover, some of the other dancers are not nice to her (they force her to show her penis during a field trip).

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* CreepyBallet: The [[TrainingFromHell intensive ballet training]] puts a high strain on Lara's body, which makes her gender dysphoria worse. The school is also very selective, which causes an additional mental stress. Moreover, some of the other dancers are not nice to her (they force her to show her penis during at a field trip).sleepover).
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* ShowerScene: There are several scenes where Lara has a shower with the other girls after the dance class, but they are not used for {{Fanservice}}, but rather to show Lara's discomfort with her body.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The film is based on the story of Nora Monsecour, a professional dancer and trans woman from Belgium, but most of the events of the film are fictional (for example, Monsecour was not accepted to the girls' class).
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* AlphaBitch: Initially, Lois seems to be nice with Lara, but she qualifies as an alpha bitch when she pressures Lara to show her penis to a group of girls.

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* AlphaBitch: Initially, Lois seems to be nice with to Lara, but she qualifies as an alpha bitch when she pressures Lara to show her penis to a group of girls.
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* AlphaBitch: Initially, Lois seems to be nice with Lara, but she qualifies as an alpha bitch when she pressures Lara to show her penis to a group of girls.
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* AgonyOfTheFeet: Lara's feet are covered in blood after the class because she danced ''en pointe'' too much.


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* {{Ballet}}: Lara dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer, so she attends dancing courses in a highly selective ballet school.


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* CreepyBallet: The [[TrainingFromHell intensive ballet training]] puts a high strain on Lara's body, which makes her gender dysphoria worse. The school is also very selective, which causes an additional mental stress. Moreover, some of the other dancers are not nice to her (they force her to show her penis during a field trip).


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* StraightToThePointe: {{Averted|Trope}}. The film actually shows how difficult it is to dance ''en pointe''.
* TrainingFromHell: Lara's dance training is very intensive. Her feet are covered in blood after the class because she danced ''en pointe'' too much.
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''Girl'' is a 2018 Belgian-Dutch drama film directed by Lukas Dhont, starring Victor Polster.

Lara (Polster) is a 15-year-old transgender girl. She wants to be a professional dancer and she attends dancing courses in a highly selective ballet school. She lives with her younger brother and her father, who supports her. She is on a hormonal treatment and she plans to have a sex reassignment surgery.

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!!''Girl'' provides examples of:
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: {{Downplayed|Trope}} because Lara generally gets on well with her younger brother, but, during a little argument with him, he calls her by her former masculine given name.
* ComingOfAgeStory: Lara is 15 years old. Over the course of the film, she makes a lot of efforts to become a profesional dancer. She has a first sexual experience. She has disagreements with her dad. She is depressed because she does not accept her body.
* MaleFrontalNudity: When Lara looks at her naked body in a mirror in her bedroom, her penis is visible.
* MissingMom: Lara's mother is missing. The film does not explain why.
* SelfHarm: Lara does not eat enough, so that her body weakens. She also compresses her penis with tape, so that she gets an infection. In the end, she tries to cut her penis with scissors.
* {{Transgender}}: Lara is a 15-year-old transgender girl.
* TransRelationshipTroubles: Lara tells her shrink that she cannot have romantic relationships at the moment because her body makes it impossible. She nevertheless seduces her neighbour, but she prevents him from touching her breasts or pubis and she gives him a blowjob.
* TransTribulations: Lara is a transgender girl. She is publicly humiliated at school when a teacher asks if the other girls are upset by the fact that she uses the girls' changing-room. Later, her classmates force her to show her penis. Yet, her most important problem is her gender dysphoria: she is obsessed by the fact that her breasts do no develop and she self-harms because she does not accept her body.
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