Novice biker Dante Colle meets Small Hands at a beer bar and gets an invitation to ride with Small Hands' motorcycle club—if he gets his bike in order first. Galpal Kira Noir tells him, "Don’t overthink this," so he heads to the clubhouse to join a ride without checking the weather first. Oops.

Colle becomes a prospective member of the club, bringing Noir to a club party—where he is given newbie duty watching the door. When Noir, bored, wants to split, club honcho Charles Dera offers to keep her company. Dera's clubhouse tour leads to Noir's initiation to the ways of the club. After Colle earns his club colors by hiding Dera's drugs in the face of a police raid, Colle uses his member status to defend club hanger-on Khloe Kay after Dera's dismissal of her as "a faggot in a Halloween costume ... he used to work in my shop"—to which Kay ripostes, "Trick or treat, bitch," with an upraised middle finger. Later that evening, she thanks Colle for defending her with sex at her place.

Afterwards, Colle walks in on a pouty Noir with a "You got off early" and she snaps "Clearly, so did you" before reading him off for "gushing all over that fucking thing at the bar." When Noir angrily confronts him with his interest in getting pegged and knowing his way around a makeup kit, he responds that he's been facing "some confusing shit and I'm still trying to figure it all out." She smacks him back with the taunt that she cheated on him, but when he asks who it was, "You do NOT get to ask me that!" Noir allows that she knew of Colle's tendencies, but she hoped it was a phase. Now, she's not so sure.

And when club president Derrick Pierce asks if he's "a faggot," Colle responds that he's a biker, and an officer of the club, and the rest is none of his business ... and then goes to Kay to confront her about ratting him out. Kay is understanding ("It's part of the process") as Dera and Pierce watch them on webcam and decide to kick Colle out "for the good of the club" when he's waiting outside prison for his dad to be released.

Dad (Tommy Pistol) is highly reactive at his return to non-prison life, exulting in taking a shower alone and using metal cutlery. He also has a tale to tell about the scar on the back of his head, a "welcoming gift" from his "fairy" cellmate who later became his biggest protector in prison. When Dad wants to visit the biker clubhouse, Colle demurs, saying he isn’t in the club anymore because somebody spread some rumors, and "some of it's true, I guess." He confesses his confusion to Dad, who is reluctantly accepting and says, "You don't need my permission to be whoever you want to be"—but Dad wants to get laid, so Colle takes him to a strip club. ("So, when you get tits, you gonna work here?") They meet Kenna James, who accommodates Dad's needs in the VIP room in an emotional scene.

When Colle comes back to Kay, bearing flowers, he finds that Kay is supportive, but "I don’t really want to be with a woman. You can't give me what I need, and I can't give you what you need." The Rubicon crossed, Colle symbolically burns his clothes and goes into surgery, emerging as Casey Kisses. When Dad loses his job, he sees Kisses' new identity as a great disguise to rob a check cashing place, but Kisses has other plans, webcamming from her bedroom, showing off her new boobs and chatting with people as they log in, stripping as the cash comes in.

A violent physical confrontation with Dad and a terrified call to the club ("It's Casey. Cameron. I need help.") leads to a reconciliation with the club, but Casey has her sights elsewhere: "I need to get out of Texas. I have a hook-up in L.A. to do porn." She lands in a cam house and starts shooting right away with Owen Gray and Kylie LeBeau. Happy ending as the end titles bring Casey's story up to date. 

Luminous cinematography and spot-on performances elevate Casey: A True Story from the run-of-the-lube-bottle biopic it could have been. Colle is particularly effective as the conflicted character who doesn't quite fit in wherever he is. Pistol's turn as the ex-con dad reveals as much by what he doesn’t say as what he does in his dialogue, and late-to-the-party Kisses dominates the third hour as she faces this new life she has started. 

A must for fans of Kisses and a good introduction to trans material for the uninitiated.