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- DirectorVertna WestStarsWhisper Leigh SmytheYou feel like you're a girl, but to everyone else and on the outside, you're a boy. You go along with it, just to not make waves, but then during puberty you develop breasts. Eventually, you marry as a man and even father children. Until one day, you decide that enough is enough. Born an XXY male, 61 year old Leigh Smythe has always been "in between" male and female. Leigh lived as a man for over 58 years, but always felt like there was a woman trapped inside. Although she yearns to live 24/7 as a female, currently, she must bounce back and forth between being a woman and a man. She lives her social life as a transgender activist and aspiring drag performer (competing against contestants less than half her age); and his work life as a man delivering newspapers (the only job he can find). Watch as she/he speaks candidly of her/his inner struggles of living with dual gender identities. Vertna Bradley's "Whisper Leigh" questions the notions of the strong and hard socially constructed and widely accepted definitions and characteristics of what it means to be male or female as it reveals the slippage of identity that can occur in defining gender.
- DirectorAntony ThomasStarsGore VidalCalpernia AddamsBeth AynsleyExamines the diversity of human sexual and gender variance around the globe, with commentary by scientific experts and first-hand accounts of people who do not conform to a simple male/female binary.
- StarsKatie CouricKatie Couric sets out to explore the rapidly evolving complexities of gender identity.
- DirectorPorter GaleLaleh SoomekhKristi Bruce and Howard Devore, both born intersex, talk eloquently about their experience of a medical model based upon shame, secrecy, and forced "normalization."
- DirectorMonika TreutStarsSusan StrykerTexas TomboyAnnie SprinkleMonika Treut explores the worlds and thoughts of several transgender individuals. As with Treuts first film, Jungfrauenmaschine, Gendernauts, enters a minority sector of San Fransisco culture. The individuals in this film are people whose assigned gender at birth does not match their social gender identity. The subject is pinpointed in the film independent of sexual orientation. Leave your conservative hats at the door, this is going to need your special attention.
- DirectorGrant LahoodStarsMani MitchellWhen a baby is born, the first question we ask. Is it a boy or a girl? What if it's neither?
- DirectorPhoebe HartStarsPhoebe HartBonnie HartJames DavidsonDocumentary filmmaker, Phoebe Hart, comes clean on a journey of self-discovery around her hidden intersex condition.
- DirectorCynthia ArraMélissa ArraStarsMaud-Yeuse ThomasTom ReucherVincent AvronsFar from the usual way of addressing trans and intersexe issues, L'ordre des mots takles this community's questions on sexual identity head on.
- StarsIlizane BroksXenia BroksSteph TonnerA documentary on intersexual children and adults.
- DirectorAjae ClearwayOne in 2000 explores the lives of people who are born with sex anatomy that doesn't fit into standard male or female categories. Interweaving current stories with 1950's educational films, the experiences of intersex people are demystified.
- DirectorEli se Mbessakwini
- DirectorPhyllis WardStarsCheryl ChaseKathryn ClarkSallie M. FoleyThis video tape is addressed to medical and mental health professionals, but is quite accessible to a lay audience as well. "Intersex" is the general term used to denote a variety of conditions in which a person is born with mixed sex anatomy. It is important to note that intersex conditions sometimes involve "ambiguous genitalia" but that intersexuality is not always evident from an external examination. Intersexuality may be caused by congenital adrenal hyperplasia, mixed gonadal dysgenesis, androgen insensitivity syndrome (complete or partial), 5-alpha reductase deficiency, and many others. The traditonal standard of care held that normal gender identity could be assigned through genital plastic surgery and by limiting information given to parents and patient. Many patients were subjected to multiple surgeries. Over the last ten years, new evidence and advances in medical ethics have led to the need for revision in the standard of care for the treatment of intersex. This film outlines the problems with many current practices and provides guidelines for a new standard of care that is more advanced scientifically and ethically. We gathered a group of experts, including medical professionals, an adult with intersex, and a parent to talk about these issues.
- DirectorCyra K. PolizziStarsRichard ParoMarcus PetersonKatie Knutson13 GENDERS is an intimate and personal documentary. The interviewees attempt to articulate their interactions with and attitudes toward their own gender expression, intersex and transgender issues, gender in entertainment and the workplace, sexual preference and the future of gender. The non-expert interviews, woven together with music and movie clips, are sometimes funny, often contradictory and occasionally surprisingly similar.
- DirectorSharon LuzonSuzan, an Arab- Israeli woman, must reshape her identity when she discovers at 35 that she was born intersexual.