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That movie isn't one I would watch a second time. The main character is so frightened and ineffectual and yet somehow is going through transition. I didn't buy the mix. The confused storyline that had so much of the homosexuality made it feel like the two situations (criminal behaviour of a homosexual prostitute and drug addict vs. sex change surgery for someone already living full time as a woman who isn' a criminal, prostitute, or drug addict or homosexual) were related. The counsellor's supposed reason for blocking of transition was very unreal. She would have switched counsellors. Assisting a person living full time in the other gender with arranging for the last surgical steps to transition has nothing to do with forcing them to sort out family issues with estranged relatives. That would be like my wife saying I can't have a golf lesson until I make amends with uncle who never got over me moving to a different city 30 years ago. The movie took a topic that is already very poorly understood and just made things worse by implying relationships between the various characters' activities that weren't related.