Robert Eads is a transsexual from Toccoa, Georgia. The focus of the film was to film Robert’s life of when Robert switched from female to male. SoCo is southern comfort which is a documentary film on Robert Eads life and his friends who are all transgender living in rural Georgia. The significance of their lives is that they switched to being transgender back in the late 1900’s when it was not nearly as socially acceptable too and Robert was denied being seen by over a dozen doctors because of that.

The film talks about the concept of family as in family are the people who stand by you and your choices no matter their opinions. With the cases of most participants in the show, their biological families did not like nor agree with their decision to be a transgender so they stopped talking to them. Although, this group of friends made their own non-biological family together and it works out great because they are there for each other and love each other.

The film talks about gender identity in a way that if people feel they are not what their external genitalia displays then they can still claim however they feel with or without surgery. Transgender people get a lot of stereotypes labeled on them in our society today. For example, people believe all transgender have medical transitioned, “transgender are mentally ill” (vox.com) and that transgender is drag queens and kings. While none of this is true many people have their judgements and beliefs on random people they have not even met just because of a label or way they look.

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https://www.vox.com/cards/transgender-myths-fiction-facts