Movie Review - She's the He (2025)

Country: United States

Language: English

Type of story: MtF Crossdressing

Is the protagonist Transgender? Yes.

Sexuality: Doesn’t Change

Nudity: No

How I watched it: I rented it on Amazon Prime for $5.99 (Watch here).

When I last watched it: July 15, 2026

I’ve been waiting to stream this movie for a whole 13 months since I first heard about it on my Discord. Finally - a TF/TG movie made by and made for a queer audience! It’s finally available to rent, so I didn’t hesitate to pull out my Amazon points for this.

My synopsis (spoiler-free): Two best friends Ethan (Misha Osherovich — who you’ll remember from Freaky) and Alex (Nico Carney) pose as trans women in their last year at high school to prove they aren’t gay before graduation.

* * Spoilers ahead * * 

This story is about Ethan and Alex.  They’ve been such close friends their entire lives, and never had girlfriends, so everyone at school assumes they’re gay. Even their overly-supportive teacher, who suggests they personalize their graduation caps with rainbows… or Bert and Ernie. Anyway, it’s 2025, so there are plenty of allies to match the homophobic students. This shouldn’t be a big deal — except horn-dog Alex has the hots for Sasha (Malia Pyles), but she won’t give him the time of day because she thinks he’s gay. Ethan flippantly suggests that if he were a girl or trans, then Alex can prove he’s straight.

So then Alex has the not-so-bright idea for both of them to pretend to be trans girls together. “Everyone already thinks we’re gay, why not level-up?” Why Alex needs to pretend too, I don’t know. It’s a flaw in his plan, and ultimately it will be their undoing.

The transformation: They sneak into the girls’ locker room and start stealing clothes to wear — until the main cast of girls come in.  Ethan and Alex hide in the shower.  Eventually they’re caught and they “come out” as trans.

In older movies, the girls would kick them out.  But since we’re finally in modern times and people know LGBTQ terminology, they embrace the pair as girls.  They are skeptical of course. Previously a gay dude, Davis (Mark Indelicato) supposedly started dating a straight girl, so the school feels jaded about students pretending to be queer.

Sasha pulls Ethan aside and gives him the makeover of his dreams. Sasha is the cis girl who’s present in all of our TG fiction stories, but never present in real life. “This is so exciting for me!” As if she literally was pulled out of one of our stories and gets to finally fulfill her purpose of giving a trans girl her first makeover.  

We have a break in the transformation because Jacob and his friends, whose sole mission in life is to break into the girl’s locker room, catch Sasha doing Ethan’s makeup.

Cut to the next class period. “We have a gender reveal!” — announces the teacher.  Complete with balloons that say “It’s a girl!”  

Oof.

When asked about names and pronouns, Ethan and Alex keep their names, but use “she/her” pronouns. This is announced over the school’s intercom.

So Sasha and Ethan finally get away again.  She drags him to the theater dressing room to give him a new dress and finish his makeup. Turns out Sasha made this dress and has aspirations for doing costuming on Broadway.

Time for the mirror reveal:  Unlike many of the dense eggs of ScribbleHub, Ethan cracks right there. She’s not pretending anymore.

Does this Movie pass the Bechdel test? Um, Yes.  The only cis men in the cast are background characters. The character Alex is a cis guy but played by a trans man. So I’m going to give this a passing grade based on queer representation alone.

Gender and Sexuality: Well, that’s what this story is about right? Ethan pretends to be trans until she learns she actually is.  She also comes to terms with being a lesbian.  She never picks a new name though. Alex is a straight male, but is concerned people think he’s gay. Forest (Tatiana Ringsby) is non-binary. Davis is gay, but people think he suddenly turned straight because he started dating a cis girl — who turned out to be trans too. So he’s still gay. Of course we’ve got allies - the school principal and the transphobic villains - the cis guys and Ethan's mom, Mary (Suzanne Cryer).

Ethan’s Mom:  Wow.  We have to talk about this. Ethan comes home after getting thrown out of Sasha’s party. She’s standing there in her dress and tells her mom, “I had a bad night. I need a hug.”  And how does mom react? “First tell me what I’m looking at?” Then changes her mind. “Let’s not.” And goes to bed without comforting her hurting child. W. T. F?  

Parents. You have one job to do. It’s to be a parent to your kids. 

OK, let’s fast forward to Ethan actually coming out to her.

“You’re a beautiful boy, why would you want to be a girl?”  Oof. I’ve heard that one before.

Anyway, like every other transphobic family member ever, she makes this about her, and not about Ethan. 

Ethan responds, admitting she knows it’s going to be hard, but not doing it would be so much harder.

If Misha Osherovich doesn’t win an award for their performance in this, we riot.

How it ends: Alex, frustrated he isn’t making headway with Sasha, outs himself — and Ethan — at a girls-only graduation party.  They are immediately thrown out and Ethan is devastated. The next day, Jacob and his friends at school learn about Alex and Ethan’s ruse and want in.  They all dress like girls just so they can go into the girls’ locker room and… um… I guess SA the girls?  I dunno.  This really makes these particular guys into very irredeemable animals. Anyway, the girls are trapped by the boys. Alex enlists Davis to help him apologize to Ethan so the trio can save the day and help the girls.

The girls finally escape because they reach into the feminine hygiene receptacles and start throwing used tampons and pads at the boys. Wow - that is something I never thought I’d see in a movie.

Alex admits he messed up and lets the girls know Ethan really is trans.  Alex also confronts Ethan’s mom and convinces her to give her daughter a chance and attend her graduation.  Ethan eventually forgives Alex.  And the school passes a rule to do away with all gendered bathrooms after the incident.

Wait… was this all the same day?

The movies it’s parodying:  It’s obviously parodying all of the cis teen crossdressing movies that came before it. Just One of the Guys to She’s the Man. Except it’s a duo and they’re pretending to be trans — which also means they don’t have to be passable.  Alex never is.  Ethan has a glow-up that will make other trans girls envious. And of course, there’s the fallout from the lie being revealed. Relationships are broken. Because Ethan is trans, she’s forgiven. Alex faces a good amount of the consequences for the lie. Namely his strained relationship with Ethan, his attempted relationship with Sasha, and the budding friendship with Forest.

Random Notes:  

• This movie is very self-aware of the genre it’s parodying.  It doesn’t take itself too seriously. 

• The opening in a way reminds me of She’s All That. There’s a lot of fast-paced dialogue that sets up the exposition of the movie.

• The high school mascot is the “Bareback Riders.” Wow, that’s a crazy mascot.

• Ethan from the start of the movie is very boy-failing. Her hair is long and styled very femininely, and she wears her clothes very femininely too.  It’s no wonder everyone thinks she and Alex are gay.

• Alex is played by Nico Carney who himself is a trans man. It’s an interesting artist choice because Alex is an over-the-top horn-dog wanting to stick his dick in some pussy. Any pussy. I wonder if Nico had any problems playing the role.  I was reminded of She’s the Man when Amanda Bynes gave herself dysphoria by playing a boy.  Actually, come to think of it, Alex rarely commits to the part and dresses femininely.  Maybe once during the montage.

• Alex: “Whose parents aren’t homophobic?” Shout-out to all TG fiction… and um… real life.

• Misha’s glow up is amazing!

• We still get a crossdressing montage as Ethan and Alex go to a thrift store to get clothes to wear to Sasha’s party.  Ethan gets a tasteful little black dress.  Alex, however, wears… umm.. clothes.

• Rather than the climax happening at a school dance, it happens in the girls’ locker room (before graduation?).

• It’s a weird choice to have the boys crossdress and act like rapists in the climax.  This is playing to the fears of TERFs and conservatives everywhere.

• Seriously—Jacob is hitting Alex and Forest with a baseball bat. How is this OK? How does Jacob not go to jail for this?

• So, was the entire back-half of the movie a single day? The locker room incident was the same day as graduation?  I ask because it appears Ethan and Forest are in a committed relationship now, and Ethan’s mom came around pretty fast to apologize. 

Overall impression: It was a good, fun movie. A breath of fresh air really to have so much LGBTQ representation.  The character of Ethan was so good and performed great by Misha Osherovich. Five stars. No notes.  The character of Alex was kinda grating, but I get that he’s a parody of other teen movies.  But he was over-the-top selfish and horny, and really just a dick friend.

Questions for my readers to ponder: 

• What did you think about the boys in the locker room scene? Was it absurd on purpose to counter or perhaps parody real-life conservative fears?

•  This is the first crossdressing movie (that I know of) that the main character turns out to be trans. How do you think it did?