Who’s That Girl (2024) is a 2-minute digital video featuring me at age four, singing “Reflection” from Disney’s Mulan (1998). The lyrics, with phrases like “passing”, “perfect daughter” and “I’m not meant to play this part” are obvious themes of gender transition. Performing a song with the lines “If I were truly to be myself, I would break my family's heart” is a not-so-subtle cry for help and another coming out to my family that I’m a girl. Edited from a home movie filmed by my Abuelita in her Columbus, Ohio, home, I added subtitles for clarity and censored instances of my family misgendering me. This footage reminded me of a story my mother still recalls of how I’d lock myself in the bathroom, singing to myself in the mirror, “Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show, who I am inside?” Although I have no memory of this, I clearly used the song to comfort myself as I navigated early-onset gender dysphoria.
