See Sam Feder on GAY USA with Ann Northrop and Andy Humm.
Sam Feder and Julie Hollar's documentary Boy I Am follows three transitioning female-to-male trans people as they undergo top surgery and hormone therapy. Typical documentaries about this subject are structured in a progress narrative in which the transperson goes from a state of confusion and gender dysphoria to one of contentment in their new body after surgery and hormone therapy. But though Boy I Am does follow this progress narrative through the three transitioning FTMs, it also engages critically with many of the fears that lesbians have about the rising number of FTMs who come out of the lesbian community.
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“[Boy I Am] juxtaposes powerful portraits with a number of articulate women who raise questions and voice doubts that many of are thinking about but don’t say aloud. The interviews with Judith “Jack” Halberstam talking about gender are worth the ticket price alone.”
~Erica Marcus
Filmmaker, Critic for SF Bay Times
