“Almost Myself: Reflections on Mending and Transcending Gender”

Rethinking Gender

Amos Lassen



“Allmost Myself” showed me a different way to look at gender. I was amazed as I watched the film which deals with transgender issues. Murray set out on a cross country journey to try to understand the mystery of those who feel they were born into the wrong gender. What is amazing is seeing that the transgender community is diverse within itself. The impetus for this movie came from a web site from a transgender person who wished to raise funds to undo the sex change operation he had had. The movie is very basically the story of a man who became a woman and then wants to become a man again and does so. It is a peek into one guy struggling with not only his sexuality but also his gender.
It is hard to imagine a woman living as a woman all of the time yet still has a penis I learned so much from this film on issues that I considered did not concern me before I watched the movie. It is enlightening and amazingly well done and one that is important because we know so little about the issues/. The concentration f the film is on transgender who are white and a bit older than the usual. What they have in common is that they were all born men. It is quite a movie and so much if it is new information. I have to give it five stars—it deserves it.