Every Body

Great movie that was assigned in a college class I was taking. Informative and proactive I admire those who have shared their intersex journey to teach others. I loved the testimony given in Austin, loved the joyful dance at the end. Loved the positivity shown despite painful life experiences. My heart went out to the people as they described the challenges they had growing up and making the decision to embrace who they are. Such incredible courage. I'm so glad this was an assignment or I probably wouldn't have heard about it. Wish there were more books and movies that describe lives of those in the LGBTQIA+ community.

The parts where they focused on the medical malpractice done to patients with difference of sexual development(DSD) were good. Those stories were emotional and heartfelt. What was done to these people as children was criminal.

They should have stuck to that.

Nothing was done to Male Minnie Driver. Fake testicles implanted into an already existing scrotum when you're old enough to understand what's going on is nothing worth including in the movie.

Then they get into trans issues. DSD has nothing to do with trans. If the subjects in the film hadn't been mutilated as children, they would have grown up with testes, and their masculinising effects. It would have been appropriate for them to use male bathrooms if the mutilations hadn't occurred. Suggesting that because these people exist that trans identitied males should be able to use women's spaces is absurd.

Finding out that you're intersex and realizing that there are no resources or information on sex development disorders is pretty disheartening and frustrating. My intersex condition was kept hidden from me by my parents until I received genetic testing on another rare disorder I had ...at age 35! Turns out this is pretty common in the intersex community!

After watching this film at an early screening, I don't feel too isolated now as an intersex person. We are very much considered outcasts by society from the start.

Thanks for giving us intersex folks a voice in a very crowded LGBTQIA environment.

The movie primarily focuses on three intersex individuals. It is estimated there are 230,000 intersex persons in the US. They have the chromosome XY, and they are not the trans population. It is a wide range of differences in the sexual anatomy of the individuals, but the bottom line is that it is complex and evolving. And their main desire is to allow the individual to make the decision of how they want to live their life as they grow up and understand who they are, and to stop the intersex surgeries of which they have no choice about just to conform to society's definition of male/female. So much of what has been in textbooks simply is wrong, and they give the example of twins, where there was a medical mistake at age 2, and he was then raised to be a girl, with devastating results, worsened by the prominent doctor who kept reporting that things were going so well. If anyone is looking for anything sordid in this movie, they need to go elsewhere. Thoughtful, informative and certainly providing a picture that most know nothing about.

This film offers an enlightening look at the complexities, struggles, and joys of the intersex community. The filmmaker includes important historical context about medical theories and treatments, as well as the deep secrecy surrounding intersex individuals that has kept this community invisible for too long.

The three main subjects of the film each share their unique quest to fully understand and take ownership over their existence in this world. By forming connections with other members of the intersex community, these individuals have learned to harness their power and celebrate their differences.