Lesbian and Gay films delve into transformations

[Shana A]

Lesbian and Gay films delve into transformations
Thursday, October 15, 2009

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09288/1005582-120.stm

Here is a sampling of movies playing during the first weekend of the Pittsburgh International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival:

'Gender Redesigner'

3 stars = Good

After a Cleveland doctor removes the two chest drains, the patient quips, "I'm a new man." In a way, fAe isn't kidding because Fae the woman is transitioning to fAe the man and the breasts are now gone.

Director John Bergmann charts the process for the friend and Western Pennsylvania native who stays on his parents' farm while recuperating from a double mastectomy that's part of the process.

As a Cleveland physician explains, "There's no one who gets sex-reassignment surgery and you wake up and you're a different sex. This is a long, involved process."