Just a few days after The Weinstein Company decided to protest the MPAA’s R-rating of their film, “3 Generations,” it released a new trailer for the project starring Elle Fanning and Naomi Watts.

“I was raised in New York by my mom, my mom’s mom and my mom’s mom’s girlfriend,” Fanning, who plays Ray in the film, says in the trailer.

“The hardest part of my day is knowing everybody still sees me as a girl,” she adds.

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“3 Generations” follows Fanning as a transgender teenage boy, with Watts playing his mother and Susan Sarandon as his grandmother, who is a lesbian. The film was previously titled “About Ray.” It is directed by Gaby Dellal.

On Thursday, TWC decided to challenge the MPAA’s R-rating for the transgender family drama, which they rated “R” due to language including sexual references.

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The Weinstein Company enlisted Hollywood lawyer David Boies, who has consulted on numerous human rights issues for TWC including the censorship of Oscar-nominated film “Carol,” as well as the previous protest of the MPAA’s rating of the documentary “Bully.” “Bully” initially received an R-rating from the MPAA for similar reasons but eventually brought its rating down to PG-13.

“3 Generations” will be released in select theaters on May 5.

Watch the trailer above.

9 Cisgender Actors Playing Transgender Characters in Film (Photos)

Hilary Swank in "Boys Don't Cry" (1999)
Swank plays real-life Brandon Teena, an American trans man who is beaten, raped and murdered by men after they discover he is transgender.
Fox Searchlight
Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica" (2005)
Huffman played a transgender woman who tried to reconnect with her estranged son, played by Kevin Zegers.
The Weinstein Company
Jared Leto in "Dallas Buyers Club" (2013)
Leto starred as an HIV positive, transgender woman in the film for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 2014.
Focus Features
Chris Sarandon in "Dog Day Afternoon" (1975)
Sarandon played a pre-operative transsexual in the film, for which he won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.
Warner Bros.
Tom Wilkinson in "Normal" (2003)
Wilkinson stars as Applewood, who after 25 years of marriage shocks his wife (Jessica Lange) when he tells her he wants to transition into a woman. He renames himself Ruth.
John Cameron Mitchell in "Hedwig & The Angry Inch" (2001)
Mitchell played Hansel Schmidt, an East German man who falls in love with an American man and they decide to marry so he can escape East Germany. However, the couple needs to consist of a man and a woman, so Schmidt undergoes gender reassignment surgery, but it gets botched.
New Line Cinema
John Lithgow in "The World According to Garp" (1982)
Lithgow played Roberta Muldoon, a former football player who transitions after being pro.
Warner Bros.
Jaye Davidson in "The Crying Game" (1992)
The now retired actor played trans woman Dil in the film, for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

Miramax Films
Lee Pace in "Soldier's Girl" (2003)
Pace starred as Calpernia Addams in the film, based on a true story. Addams came out as a transgender woman during her last year in the military.
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