Is She or Isn't He? (2010) Synopsis

Growing up in small town as a boy who people think of as girlie, Graham is an outsider and he can see only one solution... to change his gender.IS SHE OR ISNT HE? is the intimate and provocative story of a self-proclaimed "hairy woman with a penis" and her five-year search to find love and acceptance.Graham decides to become Ashleigh, and so begins filmmaker Justin Pemberton's five-year film documenting Ashleigh's attempt to transition.Ashleigh tells Pemberton that she wants more than anything to be "an attractive woman with beautiful big breasts that a man would love." She insists that she is heterosexual and a virgin.But just as Ashleigh starts to really change her appearance, she also reveals her inner conflict and confusion about what she's actually doing. Ashleigh dreads being identified as transgender and wants desperately to be accepted as normal.She hopes that becoming a woman will make her just that - normal.

Growing up in small town as a boy who people think of as girlie, Graham is an outsider and he can see only one solution... to change his gender.IS SHE OR ISNT HE? is the intimate and provocative story of a self-proclaimed "hairy woman with a penis" and her five-year search to find love and acceptance.Graham decides to become Ashleigh, and so begins filmmaker Justin Pemberton's five-year film documenting Ashleigh's attempt to transition.Ashleigh tells Pemberton that she wants more than anything to be "an attractive woman with beautiful big breasts that a man would love." She insists that she is heterosexual and a virgin.But just as Ashleigh starts to really change her appearance, she also reveals her inner conflict and confusion about what she's actually doing. Ashleigh dreads being identified as transgender and wants desperately to be accepted as normal.She hopes that becoming a woman will make her just that - normal.

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