A Boy Named Sue (Julie Wyman, 2000, USA) traces the filmmaker’s friend Sue’s FTM transition into Theo. Shot over seven years, this documentary follows Sue/Theo’s physiological and psychological journey along with its effect on his lesbian girlfriend and their community of friends. Preceded by Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Haunted Body (Canada, 1999), Marusya Bociurkiw’s campy yet serious satire which finds the gal detective now grown up and investigating a case about incest and “false memory syndrome.”
