Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people | Veronica Esposito

Let’s admit it: cisgender people are really curious about us trans women. They want to know things such as: what’s it like to have a surgeon rearrange your genitals? How did you know you were really a girl all along? Does it suck having to be on the downside of sexism now?For our own part, trans women are curious about cisgender folk, too. We want to know things like: do you actually think I’m female, or am I just a deluded guy in a dress to you? If I try to have a beer at your bar, will you violently assault me? Am I ever going to get to use a public bathroom again?These two forms of curiosity come together in problematic, uncomfortable and occasionally satisfying and even touching ways in the documentary Will & Harper, which is about actor Will Ferrell realizing that his longtime friend and SNL collaborator is not in fact that man he always presumed her to be. No, she’s actually a trans woman named Harper Steele, and they’re going to have a road trip all across the red…