Vancouver film maker Gwen Haworth made a movie, a documentary, on her life and coming out to her family as identifying as a woman rather than a man. Haworth started in 2000 with archival family footage, voice messages, and animation to show how Steven Haworth biologically a male transgendered into the female identity Gwen! 
Haworth and her Mom
"At turns painful, funny, and awkward, She's A Boy I Knew explores the frustrations, fears, questions, and hopes experienced by Gwen and her family as they struggle to understand and embrace her newly revealed identity." -Palm Springs International Film Festival
This documentary shows the effects one individual has transitioning not just with himself but with others around him as well.
"She's A Boy I Knew" has won 17 awards in the past two years and has peddled a million miles through press releases and publications around the world.
"Between 2000 and 2004, Gwen came out as transsexual to her friends and family and transitioned genders from male to female. During this process, she became painfully aware of the media's marginalized depictions of trans individuals, often as victims of discrimination & violence or objects of fetish. In She's A Boy I Knew, Haworth turns the camera on her own family, capturing an intimate, complex, and emotionally ground-breaking account of their journeys through this experience."
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