Southern Comfort (2001) on Netflix
NR20011h 30mDocumentary
Doctors keep turning away Robert Eads, a transgender man with ovarian cancer, each afraid that treating him would harm a reputation. His partner, Lola Cola, cares for him.
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Plot summary
Robert Eads is a transgender man. He is diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and doctor after doctor declines to treat him, each one worried that taking him as a patient would damage a reputation. Lola Cola, a transgender woman, is his partner and the person who looks after him. He spends his time with the friends he thinks of as his chosen family, Maxwell Scott Anderson and Cas Piotrowski among them. He and Lola plan to speak on a panel at the Southern Comfort conference, a yearly gathering for transgender people.
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Robert Eads, the transgender man at the center of the documentary, was turned down for cancer treatment by a dozen doctors who feared that treating him would damage their reputations; by the time he found a doctor willing to treat him, the cancer was too advanced to save his life.
