Variety.com – By Jay Weissberg
(Documentary — Canada)
A Shapeshifter Films production. (International sales: Outcast Films, New York.) Produced, directed, written, edited by Gwen Haworth.
With: Gwen Haworth, Malgosia Rawicz Mann, Colleen Haworth, Thomas Haworth, Kim Haworth, Nicole Haworth, Roari Richardson.
Honest, intelligent and absolutely clear-eyed, “She’s a Boy I Knew” proves there’s still more to be squeezed out of transsexual documentaries. Helmer Gwen Haworth turns the camera on herself and loved ones to chart not just her path to gender reassignment surgery, but the toll the decision took on those around her…