Becoming Johanna -- A Trans Youth's Story (VIDEO)

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Becoming Johanna -- A Trans Youth's Story (VIDEO)
posted by: Steve Williams 13 hours ago

http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/becoming-johanna-video/

Becoming Johanna is a short documentary, and the third film in the Youth and Gender Media Project series, that tells the story of sixteen–year–old transgender Latina kid Johanna whose deeply religious mother committed her to a mental hospital in order to prevent her transition to a young woman.

As you will see from the trailer below, Johanna and her mother's relationship remains tense.