The title of this film is the name of an annual convention of transgendered people in America. It could have been retitled "Small town girl grows up in a different way". It is a powerful and moving documentary about the life and death of Robert Eads, a female-to-male transgendered person. Robert was married and was the mother of two boys, one of whom still called him "Mom". Robert’s own mother preferred him to be gay rather than a transgendered person, and his father told the neighbours that Robert was his nephew when he visited.

Southern Comfort is a powerful and moving documentary

Reviewer Joe Henderson-Tang

He had a mastectomy when he became Robert, but did not have phalloplasty surgery. He believed that being a man was in the mind and the heart. Tragically, ironically, he developed ovarian cancer, and eventually died from it because doctors were unwilling to treat him.

Robert had the love and support of his partner, Lola Cola, and other transgendered couples, which sustained him, and his own inner strength helped him live life to the full. Perhaps another title for this film could have been this line from the Rocky Horror Picture Show - "Don’t dream it, be it."