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Deadline reports that Netflix will stream Eric Juhola's documentary Growing Up Coy, about the transgender 6-year-old whose family fought for her right to use the girls’ bathroom in a landmark civil rights case that prompted a nationwide debate. Directed by Eric Juhola, the film will go live January 6 via the streaming service. It has previously been screened around the country at film festivals and featured in various press outlets.
About Growing Up Coy
“How far would you go to fight for your child’s equal rights?”
In this captivating documentary, a young Colorado family engages in a highly publicized legal battle and landmark civil rights case as they fight for their 6-year-old transgender daughter Coy Mathis’s right to use the girls’ bathroom at her elementary school. The Mathis family's landmark case in 2013 was the first in the United States to decide in favor of a transgender youth using the bathroom facility that corresponds with their gender identity.