Apparently, 2016 was the most dangerous year for trans people. After the US Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges in the summer of 2015, the antigay agenda had lost, but their energy didn’t just disappear. Instead, director Vlada Knowlton’s documentary posits that antigay activists focused on a different target: anti-trans bathroom bills. The film features multiple Washingtonian families with young trans children affected by the flood of bathroom bills that appeared in 2016. The portraits are a humanizing and well-researched look at an issue that seems mind-blowingly simple to many progressives: Why can’t people pee where they want to pee?

The Most Dangerous Year screens tonight and this Sat., June 2, at the 44th annual Seattle International Film Festival, which happens through June 10. More recommended SIFF films here; and all SIFF films here.