Every Body (2023)

Every Body
DirectorJulie Cohen, Julie Cohen
Runtime92 min
CountryUnited States
Box office$276,895

Plot

NPR wrote that the film, "uncovers the misconceptions around intersex people and the mistreatment they've faced". The definition of intersex is a person who looks to be one gender but has subtle biological characteristics of the other, and is neither 100% male or 100% female. This condition is from birth. Alicia, for example, looks very much like a young blue eyed blonde girl. She has a vagina, but beneath it are not a uterus and ovaries, but internal testicles, and her chromosomes are XY. All three subjects are chronicled, and they describe the painful and unnecessary surgical procedures to remove what made them intersex. (Alicia's testicles were removed at a very young age.) Alicia decides to go public with her condition in order to speak out against a "Bathroom Bill" that was making its way through the Texas state legislature, despite warnings that this will make dating for her much more difficult. She succeeds in scuttling the bathroom bill. She then leads many protests to end unnecessary intersex surgery, and identical protests are shown in various American cities. The film ends with a celebration. All three subjects, plus all the principal players in the film - director, producer, etc. - all happily dance one by one before the camera with their names and pronouns displayed.

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