This Western film, based on a Louis L'Amour novel, focuses on traditional frontier themes and characters. There are no discernible LGBTQ+ characters, relationships, or themes present in the story, resulting in no depiction to evaluate.

The film "Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills" (1986) is a Western adventure focusing on a young boy and a dog's survival. There are no identifiable transsexual characters or themes present in the narrative, nor are there any depictions that could be interpreted as related to transgender identity. Therefore, the film has no net impact on the portrayal of transsexual individuals.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The 1986 film adaptation of Louis L'Amour's novel "Down the Long Hills" maintains the original genders of its primary characters, including the young protagonist Hardy Collins. No significant character's gender was altered from the source material.

Based on Louis L'Amour's novel, the film adaptation portrays its characters, including the central figure Hardy, consistent with their established racial depictions in the source material. No instances of a character canonically established as one race being portrayed as a different race were identified.