A new documentary captures five years of mundane, raw, joyous and heartbreaking moments from families with trans kids in the midwest
Transhood, a new documentary following four transgender youths in the midwest, hovers in the tension between universal and specific: the navigation of adolescent breakups and alienation, changing times and bodies, learning to speak for and as oneself. “I started off not really knowing who I was, because, I mean, I was a kid,” says Avery, pink-haired and precocious, in the film’s first scene, as she reflects on the end of a five-year filming process, age 12 looking back at age seven, “a little bit after the trans … trans … transformation? That’s pretty much what I remember,” she says before plunging into a pool.
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