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The Danish Girl: A Story of Love and Identity

In the mid-1920s Copenhagen, portrait artist Gerda Wegener asks her spouse, Einar Wegener, a popular landscape artist and closeted trans woman, to stand in for a female model, who is late arriving at their flat to pose for a painting Gerda is working on.

Embracing Identity

The experience of posing for Gerda’s painting inspires Einar to come out as transgender and rename herself Lili Ilse Elvenes, later adopting the surname Elbe. This sets off a progression, first tentative and then irreversible, of leaving behind the masculine gender expression Lili has struggled to maintain all her life. Lili and Gerda relocate to Paris; Gerda’s portraits of Lili in her feminine state attract serious attention from art dealers in a way that Gerda’s previous portraits did not. Gerda tracks down art dealer Hans Axgil, Lili’s childhood friend (whom Lili had kissed when they were young).

Seeking Acceptance

Hans and Gerda’s mutual attraction is a challenge as Gerda is navigating her changing relationship with Lili. As Lili continues suppressing her transgender identity, she starts to seek help from psychologists. However, none of them are able to help her, and, in one instance, Lili is almost committed to an asylum. Eventually, at Ulla Poulsen’s recommendation, Lili and Gerda meet Dr. Kurt Warnekros.

Dr. Warnekros proposes an innovative and controversial solution for Lili: male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. He warns Lili and Gerda that it is a very dangerous operation which has never been attempted before, and Lili would be one of the first to undergo it. Lili immediately agrees and, soon after, travels to Germany without Gerda to begin the surgery.

A Heartbreaking Journey

Gerda stays behind for a while but ultimately decides she should be by Lili’s side. She arrives after Lili has completed the first surgery, who is very much in pain with a serious infection and a negative prognosis. After Gerda helps Lili heal, Lili begins working in a department store selling women’s perfume. Lili stays a while but decides it is time to go for the second surgery, much to Gerda’s distress. Lili again leaves alone.

Gerda again shows up after the surgery is complete, but Lili is pale and weak. She feels complete and insists she be taken out to the garden again. Lili dies of complications from the second surgery while talking with Gerda. Gerda and Hans travel to a hilltop back in Denmark where Hans and Lili grew up, in front of the five trees Lili often painted. The scarf that Lili had originally given Gerda, which had subsequently been given back and forth several times, is carried away in the wind, dancing.

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