Films

An aggregation of films and documentaries on intersex experiences follows in the descriptions below and their corresponding linked pages.

Feature Films

  • Spork (2010)
  • XXY (2007)
  • Zerophilia (2006)

Documentaries

“XXXY” Porter Gale & Laleh Soomekh (2000)
Kristi Bruce and Howard Devore discuss the secrecy and shame surrounding their intersexuality.   Available here.

Hermaphrodites Speak

Living a Lie” KKTV 11 News (2009)

Debbie Wuco describes her life following gender assignment as a surgery including her life as a married man and her transition to life as a woman.

“Intersex” by Lynn Sherr 20/20 (2002) Part 1Part 2
Features interviews with Kenneth Glassberg, a doctor who performs and advocates gender assignment surgeries on infants. Cheryl Chase, a woman who received one of these surgeries; and Hilda Viloria, an intersex woman who did not.

“Is it a boy? Is it a girl?” Discovery Channel (2000) Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Shares the story of Debbie Hartman, the mother of an intersex child five years after her daughter’s gender assignment surgery.

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