The Major and the Minor is a 1942 romantic comedy focused on a woman's elaborate deception to secure a child's train ticket, leading to a comedic romance. The film does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or subplots, resulting in no direct portrayal of queer identity.

The film does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The central plot involves a woman cross-dressing as a child for practical reasons, which is a comedic disguise and not related to gender identity or transsexual experiences. Therefore, the film has no net impact on the portrayal of transsexual individuals.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film's plot involves a female character disguising herself as a child, but her canonical gender remains female. There is no evidence of any character whose established gender from the source material was changed in this adaptation.

This 1942 film is an adaptation of a 1923 play and 1921 novel. All major characters, implicitly white in the source material, are portrayed by white actors in the film, with no instances of a character's established race being changed.