‘It’s all such new territory’: what it’s like growing up trans in middle America – The Guardian

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 films 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…

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