Perhaps you will recall last year’s headlines about Mack Beggs, a then-18-year-old high school athlete from around Dallas. In case you need to refresh your memory: Mack is a practically undefeated …
Perhaps you will recall last year’s headlines about Mack Beggs, a then-18-year-old high school athlete from around Dallas. In case you need to refresh your memory: Mack is a practically undefeated transgender wrestler who won the girls’ title in the state of Texas even though he wanted to contest in the boys division as per the gender he identifies with.
Unadventurous in its design — Barnett goes for a conventional mélange of clips and talking heads to structure the story — “Changing the Game” admittedly benefits from a traditional approach that slowly familiarizes the audience both with the subjects and the layers of an ongoing discriminatory debate around fairness. Most arguments against allowing students to compete under their gender identity target transgender females and insist on their supposed leg up on cisgender girls.
Soon enough, we learn about the positive outcomes of Sarah’s activism, which had a direct impact on the rules the Interscholastic Athletic Assn. of New Hampshire applies on transgender students. We also follow Sarah’s home life with her adoptive parents who are unambiguously on her side, both when she plays her chosen field of sports and films her charming makeup tutorials on YouTube.
“Changing the Game” is unfortunately short-supplied when it comes to policy makers and those holding positions of power — a sports coach here and a school administrator there doesn’t quite fulfill the informative breadth needed to enrich the film’s context. Still, Barnett operates well within his narrative’s intimate limits, positioning himself squarely on the side of trans teens’ right to play sports on their own terms.
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