Human Sexuality and Biology - Dramas

Transamerica
Director: Duncan Tucker
Country of origin and year: USA, 2005
Starring: Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers and Fionnula Flanagan
Southern Californian Bree Osbourne, who was formerly Stanley Chupak, has finally received the news for which she has been waiting: she has been approved for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. But before Margaret, her therapist, will allow her to go through with the surgery scheduled in a week's time, Bree has to deal with an unresolved issue from her past. Bree got a telephone call from a seventeen year old man named Toby Wilkins, who was looking for Stanley, his biological father. Toby is in a New York jail, and masquerading as a Christian social worker, Bree bails Toby out of jail and tells him she will take him to Los Angeles. As Bree and Toby take their trans-American journey which includes some interesting encounters along the way, Bree has to decide what is best for Toby while having the foremost goal of making it back to Los Angeles for the scheduled surgery.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407265/