The Second Life of Jamie P.

Directed by: Roger Sherman Released: 2020 (educational) Year of Production: 2019 Running Time: 88 min Language: English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Gender Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies          The Second Life of Jamie P. is the story of Jamie Peebles, who always thought he was a man. At age 63 she realized “like a bolt of lightning” she's a woman. We follow her excruciating and wonderful transition for a year. This feature documentary is Jamie’s personal, revelatory, hilarious, sometimes joyful, and always poignant story told through video diaries and intimate cinema verité confessions to Roger, her friend of 40 years. At home near Boston, seeing her image in her mirror brings Jamie constant pain. She is a woman, but there’s this freaky bald man looking back at her. Being misgendered is devastating; raising her voice to sound more feminine is not working. Her daughter Tina is traumatized. Elaine, her ex-wife, must “rethink our thirty