Kelsa, the protagonist of Billy Porter’s “Anything’s Possible,” played by Eva Reign, has already dealt with most of the tough obstacles to claiming her identity as a trans girl: She admitted it to …
, has already dealt with most of the tough obstacles to claiming her identity as a trans girl: She admitted it to herself, she told her mom , she took the blockers and the hormones, and she went back to the same school where people had previously known her as a boy. She doesn’t like it when people call her “brave” , but she had to be to do all that.a sparkling celebration of in-your-face individuality.
“Anything’s Possible” makes a decent start of answering these questions, serving up lots of by-example empowerment for self-questioning younger audiences, many of whom lack role models in this department. But it still plays a bit too much like a public service announcement — where characters embody and express trans-accepting talking points — and not enough like the funny, sexy teen romcoms that clearly inspired it.
The setup is simple: Kelsa has feelings for a boy in her class, Khal , and doesn’t know what to do about it. She’s Black, he’s Muslim, and those categories alone might have been enough to complicate a white-bread YA romance two of three decades ago. But she’s also trans, and that’s the obstacle at play here. Khal doesn’t have an issue with who or what she is, but worries how the world will take it. And things are tricky for Kelsa, since one of her best friends, Em , also has a crush on Khal.
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