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Caught in the crossfire at the intersection of medicine, politics, and religion, perfectly healthy intersex children are being surgically altered to look more like typical girls and boys. Surgeries and hormone replacements are begun before children can consent causing physical and psychological harm. These procedures have been identified as Human Rights Violations by the United Nations but continue in the United States every day. Uncovering the truth about their bodies, five intersex people break the silence about their physical differences. Coming from Christian and Jewish families they show how religion can and has been a tool to support secrecy and surgeries but how their own faith has also helped them find healing, courage, and hope.
A few cast members, Anunnaki, Megan B., Lianne, and David B., participate on a panel at a screening at Harvard Medical School. Sept 2019.
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Stories of Intersex and Faith documentary was funded in part through the non-profit Intersex and Faith and its generous supporters. Intersex and Faith the non-profit operated from 2017-2022. Co-founded by Megan DeFranza and Lianne Simon, its mission was to “support, advocate with, and educate others about intersex people to help faith communities welcome those born outside the male/female binary.” The non-profit closed not long after Lianne’s untimely passing in 2021.
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