![]() ![]() When Kelsa is briefly barred from the girls’ bathroom, it is portrayed as a bigoted attempt to tar a transgender person by exploiting unreasonable fears. Just as teen transgenderism is normalized, opponents of transgender ideology are demonized. The film is a powerfully normalizing piece of LGBT propaganda in large part because Kelsa is played by Eva Reign, a biological male who “transitioned” at a young age and can very much “pass” as female. ![]() References are made to the fact that Kelsa’s body isn’t female, but that is dismissed out of hand as irrelevant to love (although not, presumably, to love-making). They are just two teens falling in love, and anything’s possible. He watches Kelsa’s YouTube videos about going on puberty blockers and transgender experiences and decides-like the open-minded protagonist that he is-that none of that matters. ![]() It is a standard, cheesy teen rom-com with an angsty pop soundtrack-except for the fact that Kelsa (whose name means “brave”) was born male and now identifies as a “trans girl.” Kelsa looks like a girl, too, and Khal, her classmate, falls hopelessly in love. In 2022, director Billy Porter (a gay man renowned for dressing in drag) released the coming-of-age romantic comedy Anything’s Possible. ![]()
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