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Official Trailer; June 30

posted a year ago by Satan2016 (23446)
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Focus Features https://youtu.be/SoNvk5N-MKo

EVERY BODY is a revelatory investigation of the lives of intersex people. The film tells the stories of three individuals who have moved from childhoods marked by shame, secrecy, and non-consensual surgeries to thriving adulthoods after each decided to set aside medical advice to keep their bodies a secret and instead came out as their authentic selves. Actor and screenwriter River Gallo (they/them), political consultant Alicia Roth Weigel (she/they), and Ph.D. student Sean Saifa Wall (he/him) are now leaders in a fast-growing global movement advocating for greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries. Woven into the story is a stranger-than-fiction case of medical abuse, featuring exclusive footage from the NBC News archives, which helps explain the modern-day treatment of intersex people.

[–] BugisStreetAnnie (1294) 10 months ago

This sounds like it would be very interesting. I knew someone intersex some years ago, and she's about 60 now, but her parents didn't tell her the truth about her medical situation either until she was in her early 20s. They lied up until that point. At 14 they told her she needed a hysterecomy and would need to start taking female hormones, but in reality she had her testes removed, not ovaries. Parents and doctors probably don't do this today.