This documentary chronicles the final year in the life of Robert Eads, a transgender woman. Eads, diagnosed with ovarian cancer, was turned down for treatment by two dozen doctors out of fear that treating such a patient would hurt their reputations. By the time Eads received treatment, the cancer was too advanced to save his life. The 2001 film feels dated in parts, but looks fairly sympathetically at the trans community that surrounds Eads, as well as his relationship with his parents, his son (who struggles to gender him correctly), and his grandson, who only knows him as “papaw.”
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