A documentary that explores and investigates as to whether transgender is a choice or are transgender people born as the wrong sex.
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Very informative documentary. The journo asks good questions and questions the answers. Emotional interviews and inside look into the lives of the transgender participants.
I watched My Transparent Life with a completely open mind. I was not going to watch it to judge the transgender community or the many against them. I watched this to learn, and learn I did.
It's a remarkably eye opening documentary, especially if like me, you have little to zero knowledge on transgender or body dysmorphia (you'll learn about the latter when you watch it), plus there's all the surgery that being transgender can bring.
Moving away from the "is it he or she", "them, him and her" the documentary is very professionally laid out, moving smoothly from one aspect of the subject to the next whilst receiving expert knowledge from those in the know at the right intervals alongside those who consider themselves transgender, such as Jesse Sullivan and Stassi Kihm.
We also hear from one in a relationship with Stassi. He suggests he is "pan sexual" and is not embarrassed about his feelings towards her but decided to keep his identity hidden which I, and even co-director Miko found incongruent.
There are also questions about transitioning. How it may be easier to transition in certain parts of the US than elsewhere. In Stasi's case, LA versus Ohio.
We also reach a very important, and very sad moment with one of the ladies that is a huge turning point in the documentary and her life on the whole.
The documentary makes you think, it makes you question, and it educates. All things that are required for a very good documentary.
If you watch My Transparent Life with an open mind as I did, you may very well surprise yourself with what your head tells you.
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