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‘She’s the He’ Review: A Delightful Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Sendup of Transgender Bathroom Panic
Siobhan McCarthy's SXSW selection 'She's the He' is a lively, subversive high school indie by and for trans people.
), it also adds a playful fluidity to the film’s purview of queerness, as though it were a sandbox for trans storytellers to experiment with traditional tales from which they’re often boxed out (in this case, teen sex comedies, and high school coming-of-age stories). Eventually, the film does build to a more straightforward depiction of aggressive cis boys trying to con their way into women’s spaces, but this too unfolds with a satirical streak (set to a song from queer landmark “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” no less). Instead, “She’s the He” makes a huge lark out of the idea that trans women in public spaces are a threat, or would open the door to bizarre impersonations, and instead presents political solutions in highly unusual, tongue-in-cheek ways.
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