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Gender Trouble
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Gender Trouble

2003-03-02 · 24 min · ★ 4.0

Four intersex people tell their stories with eloquence and candour. Roz Mortimer's film questions how medicine and society have treated intersex people, and breaks the codes of silence and secrecy that have surrounded their lives.

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Roz Mortimer
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