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A normal girl / Women Make Movies ; directed by Aubree Bernier-Clarke ; produced by Shawna Lipton ; produced by Pidgeon Pagonis.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intersex people.
- Intersex people--Identity.
- Intersexuality--Social aspects.
- Intersexuality.
- Gender identity.
- Intersexuality--Treatment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Intersexuality--Treatment.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (14 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Distributed by] Women Make Movies, [2021]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Activist Pidgeon Pagonis was born intersex, not conforming to standard definitions of male or female, and experienced genital mutilation as a child. Now Pidgeon is fighting the medical establishment, seeking to end medically unnecessary surgeries and human rights abuses on intersex people in the United States and around the world. An estimated 1.5% of the population is born with intersex traits. While most of these babies are healthy, their bodies are treated as a medical emergency. It is common practice for doctors to perform genital surgeries on intersex infants--often with disastrous results including total loss of genital sensation, lifetime synthetic hormone dependence, and being assigned a gender with which they do not identify. Through the story of Pidgeon's remarkable journey and fight for bodily self-determination, this film brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light.
- Participant:
- Pidgeon Pagonis.
- Credits:
- Editor, Kai Davies ; director of photography, Aubree Bernier-Clarke ; composer, Anthony Rhodes.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in [2020].
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 19, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- wm-norgir Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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