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Canada · 2018
1h 20m
Director Michael Del Monte
Starring Janae Marie Kroczaleski
Genre Documentary
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In the summer of 2015, former US Marine and world record weightlifter Matt "Kroc" Kroczaleski, now Janae, was publicly outed as being transgender. The reaction was universal: her sponsors abandoned her, she was disowned by her parents, and banned from competing. Now, she searches to find her place in society.
L.A. Weekly by Alan Scherstuhl
The film might prove more illuminating and instructive if it examined more reactions to Kroc’s flowering from within the lifting world. Overall, though, Del Monte has crafted a warm portrait of the birth of a woman from a man who found that he had even more strength than he ever realized.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
Following Matt through a public transition and capturing its unique set of complications, Del Monte offers a warm portrait of a thoroughly winning subject.
Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
Transformer beautifully captures the process of Janae crafting her own sense of femininity, unique to who she was and who she continues to be.
The topical issue of gender indeterminacy is examined, not through the lens of moralizing or academic theory, but from one person’s vulnerable experience.
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