Gets off to a rough start, because for the first 20 or so minutes, it doesn't really present criticisms of its subject, doesn't provide much of her background at all, and really seems to just follow her around her life and make her seem sympathetic.

I found her actions were a little more understandable (though perhaps sympathetic would be a stretch) when the background context was finally provided, and they do have interviewees and stock footage (eventually) to show how and why Black people have a problem with her actions. I think they could have gone a little harder with showing more of these criticisms, but it is interesting to balance that with some sympathetic moments and leave it up to the audience to decide.

It's the fact that she is the first high profile person to commit to being "trans race" that makes her case unprecedented and divisive. I can recognise she doesn't think that choice was harmful, but in cases like this, I think you do have to listen to what others say, and if a good number of Black people give good reasons as to why they have a problem with it, you should listen and stop doing the offending behaviour.

Still, the multiple perspectives and fairly neutral tone of the documentary did make it a little more interesting. Otherwise, the slow start and competent but unimpressive presentation does weigh it down a bit.

Like all documentaries about controversial subjects, I could definitely understand someone watching this and hating every minute of it, but for me personally, I thought it a solid, sometimes quite interesting, but certainly far from great watch about a topic/subject that, to my knowledge, no other film or documentary has covered.

This is one for the DSM. I have a much better understanding of this woman after watching this documentary. Here's what I think happened: she had abusive white parents and loving adopted black siblings. She needed to dissociate from the parents and wanted badly to be a part of the only other family she had who just so happened to be black. Being white to her means being a helpless abused young girl. She even says that at the end! Had her siblings been Canadian, I think she'd be claiming Canadian heritage. She also clearly really loves the attention. I can't fully figure her out, but I do think some therapy could help her face her past trauma and potentially realize why what she is doing is wrong and harmful to the black community.

I went between laughing at her and feeling sorry for her. She's clearly got some emotional issues that need to be addressed at a professional level.

At the end of the day, especially in this day and age when people don't even know what gender they are and what bathroom they should use, who cares that she wants to be close to the black culture? Her problem isn't her mental issues, it's that she lied about it for so long and so publicly, nobody will sympathize now.

If she had just been truthful from the beginning, this documentary would have never been made.

I do find it very odd though that EVERYTHING she does is black. Black adoptions, black friends, etc. Must be what the Kardashians girls have? Not sure.