Steineded How sad is this?

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Moviecritic First, people can dress and be whoever they want. However, they can't pretend to be something and force others to go along with it. There is a double standard with so many. Transgenders and others who suffer from gender dysphoria are celebrated, even get the woman of the year (Bruce Jenner, even though he is a man), but Rachel is shunned by everyone.The movie definitely was more than sympathetic to her and tried to normalize transracial. Not surprising from Netflix.The documentary was a bit disjointed. It took about 45 minutes to get some basic facts like she was brought up with several adopted black kids, that she was married to a black man, instead of her kids being adopted. To me, that wasn't and shouldn't have been a plot point or a reveal. It should have come in the beginning so you are not confused throughout. It took an hour to figure out one of her kids was adopted.You don't become another gender or ace just because you feel like it. You can dress like it, but there are so many implications for identifying as another gender or race and not being honest with yourself and others about your true being is problematic.She even at one point tries to argue why we are obsessed with DIFFERENT races (saying just one human race), but then insist she is black (a different race). a total contradiction.People with race/gender identity issues should deal with them psychologically because that is what they are. If you can't find some way to live with who you are born as, find a way to live the way you want to be, but don't get to have others to accept you if they don't want to. You shouldn't be the victim of violence because of it, but if you choose to live a certain way, there will be consequences. It's part of life.The film presents the opposing views as an onslaught of intolerant positions. The most frustrating thing was that all the legitimate questions raised by callers, audience members, radio and tv hosts etc, were never answered. The movie was too long and was too repetitive. I learned there is a lot of shame that is the basis for dysphoria. I think most people at one point have questioned their own identity, but it is coming to terms of who you are that is freeing, not rejecting it. She is not a bad person. She means well. She is just not honest and she is delusional and it obviously affected others that didn't want to be a part of it. She is, however, an amazing painter.The lesson was you can't change your race because you "feel" like it, but somehow you are allowed to change your gender if you "feel" like it. A total double standard.

srhmcvy I had very mixed views about this documentary. Although I enjoyed it I don't know if I can have an opinion on Rachel's story. There's no denying she's had a tough childhood along with her life so far and she clearly struggles with her identity. I understand how it can be such a raw subject for people but I don't agree that this is the epitome of white privalage. We live in a much more fluid society nowadays where gender and sexuality are interchangeable. If Rachel believed she identifies more with a different race then I don't see what harm that does to another? What I do see a problem with is trying to identify with struggles of the black community without experiencing them firsthand. In the documentary a girl challenges Rachel and says she doesn't deserve to call herself a black woman because she hasn't faced the struggles a black woman has faced growing up in our society. From the documentary Rachel appears to be cast out by more than one community, job, institution and is constantly explaining her self to multiple outlets, cultures etc. for her ethnicity. But then again this is through her own actions...?I understand why it's stuck a nerve and upset so many people. Admittedly, I didn't know an awful lot about this only bits and bobs from the news. I did feel for Rachel, I really did. That was until she changed her name...

fatimah-52797 What i saw was a hatchet job with very entertaining footage anyone can find on youtube twitter and social media. how was it even possible to play a movie like that? anyway noone ever gives the subject a chance to speak its mostly black women screaming at the top of their lungs not allowing her to speak for her self. i don't think it was a good film as it puts words in her mouth. and the little she did speak it was just enough to reel you in but there was no justice really done for her. i feel sorry for what her has had to go through with the media taking advantage of her. she also didn't get paid for this film yet it is a hot top and making the production lot of money while they are touring the world with this film seems highly unfair.

guajardonorma-77991 It's not so much what she did, it's how she did it. She's still a mother and just trying to tell her side of the story. People need to spread love not peace. This documentary really shows the struggles she goes through not just her but her children.