Into My Name

9/3/2024

There's a ten year age gap between the four friends who assemble here to illustrate their experience transitioning from female to male. Over the ninety minutes of this routinely produced documentary, we are given a bit of a sense of just how these people have adapted to a society that is still largely defined by male and femaleness (from birth) and it looks at a broad range of implications not just for them, but for a community as an whole that frequently confuse the nouns of masculine and feminine with those of masculinity and femininity. Attributes and the mannerisms are sometimes the cause of that confusion with one describing himself as "too manly to be a girl" but not manly enough "to be a boy" and as we get to know Nic, Raff, Leo and Andrea we see that they are all just as different