Transformer (2017)

November 27, 2022 8:11 AM

A documentary following the former US Marine and world record weightlifter Janae Kroczaleski shortly after she is outed as transgender and loses her sponsors. Trailer.

100% on Rotten Tomatoes; available free on Kanopy and with ads on Roku, Tubi, Pluto, etc. JustWatch listing.

posted by johnofjack (1 comment total)

I saw this maybe a year ago and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. I thought it was fascinating, though a bit uncomfortable at the start of the film given that Janae has basically two competing forms of dysphoria (she wants to be extremely large and muscular as a man, and to be pretty and not gawked at as a woman. But female bodybuilding is still not widely accepted and female bodybuilders get gawked at).
posted by johnofjack at 8:18 AM on November 27, 2022 [2 favorites]