For Today I Am a Boy

It follows the life of Audrey Huang, a young transgender Chinese child, throughout her childhood and adolescence in Fort Michel, Ontario, and adulthood and transformation in Montreal, Quebec.

A baby is born to the Chinese Canadian Huangs in Fort Michel, Ontario; assigned male and given the name Peter at birth.

"[1][2] At age 18, Huang moves away from home and to Montreal, where she works in restaurants and leads a lonely life.

She has affairs with two older women, the first an abusive mother of a casual friend, and the second a Christian evangelist trying to purge herself of lesbianism.

The National Post writes, "In lesser hands, For Today I Am a Boy could easily veer into the didactic, a catalogue of Valuable Lessons and thinly veiled disdain for old ways of gender, of culture, of family.