When you’re a child, one of the most maddening things adults always say is how fast children grow up. If you’ve only lived a few years, it takes forever: The powers and privileges that …
” maintains an artful bifocal perspective, capturing both youthful impatience and parental whiplash as it tracks the physical and emotional development of four trans children over the course of five years. The title’s evocation of Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” can’t be accidental: In nonfiction form, Liese’s film aims for similarly striking, sensitive time-lapse rewards.
Yet as the film rewinds the clock to 2014, seven-year-old Avery seems more assured of herself than most. Supported by her parents Debi and Tom, she’s already giving confident radio interviews about her gender identity at age seven. Further press looms, as does a picture book deal, with her parents eager to publicize Avery’s story as encouragement to less secure kids in her situation.
15-year-old Leena, a transgender girl with designs on a Victoria’s Secret modeling career and reassignment surgery after high school, is more strategically selective with the truth. Her parents, friends and boyfriend accept her for who she is, though viewers will perceive obvious fault lines in her relationship with the latter well before she does; the Kansas-based swimwear line that recruits her to model for them, however, is less open-minded when she reveals her trans identity.
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