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Trans Athletes Are “Changing the Game” on Hulu
Hulu is going all out to celebrate LGBTQI+ Pride Month with both the old and the new.
The chestnuts include both The Birdcage and The Full Monty, a duo from 1997 celebrating drag-queen family values and amateur stripping. Then there last year’s Supernova, where love and dementia get intertwined while Cowboys spotlights a Montana dad struggling to salvage his trans son’s life. And don’t you dare overlook the second season of Love, Victor, an engaging recreation of high-school closeted neurosis and romance.
A must-see though is Michael Barnett’s Changing the Game (2019), a moving, much too timely documentary on three trans-teens competing in the sports arena.
First, there’s Mack Beggs, a Texas high-school wrestler forced to wrestle girls while he considers himself a boy. Does being on testosterone give him an unfair advantage? Some of the media, a few of Mack’s opponents, and many of their parents certainly feel so. And what happens when he wins the state championship?
