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Gender Trouble

Gender Trouble

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Gender Trouble

2003

0h 24m

4.0(3 votes)

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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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Directed by: Roz Mortimer
Produced by: Roz Mortimer

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