Gabriela is a mother to three-year-old twin boys who is facing a struggle that she never expected to have: one of her sons, Manuel, has a repressed desire to live as a girl. As Gabriela watches Manuel become more distant and dejected while those around her are unable or unwilling to accept, the distressed mother finds herself fighting on the front line of the transgender rights movement.
I'm a Girl, I'm a Princess
This Argentine drama unfolds the story of Gabriela, a distressed mother of three-year-old twin boys who is blind to see that the anguish, chronic insomnia, and self-flagellation that one of them, Manuel, is enduring is brought on by a repressed desire to live as a girl. The ability to relate with family members, society, at school, and during medical checkups is where conflicts emerge between indifference and understanding, rejection and acceptance, thrusting Gabriela into a myriad of emotional states that surface in her own thoughts and fears. But the struggle leads Gabriela to see that her story is the same as countless other families who are in need of help to recover the children they thought they’d lost. Gabriela is not an activist, she’s not an academic, nor is she an endocrinologist — she is a normal mom who is willing to do anything for her children.