Every Body (2023)

• Year: 2023
• Released: 18 Aug 2023
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 win
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27074938/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/every_body
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/every-body
• Available in: 1080p, 2160p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Documentary
• Runtime: 92 min
• Writer: N/A
• Director: Julie Cohen
• Cast: Sean Saifa Wall, Alicia Roth Weigel, River Gallo
• Keywords: intersexuality, gender, lgbt, gender identity, sexual discrimination, mental health care,

	6.0/10
	79/100
	97% – Critics
	96% – Audience

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While not its primary purpose, this movie changed how I view trans people

The movie profiles three intersex people and describes what it means to be intersex. Prior to seeing this movie, I did not know that intersex people existed. These are people whose physical genitalia doesn’t match the normal presentation for their chromosomal sex. For this reason, these are people for whom gender at birth is ambiguous, since they have biological traits of both genders.

This first great thing about this movie is that it presents cases where the phrase “gender assigned at birth” makes sense and is explained! I’m a liberal voter, but have bristled at how trans vocabulary uses “gender assigned at birth”. I never got it- how could gender be “assigned”? By profiling intersex people, this movie explains cases where in fact gender is very deliberately chosen.

The second great thing about this movie is that it presents intersex conditions simply as “different bodies”, people for whom a typical combination of chromosomes and genital anatomy didn’t happen. I think most people can point to something that makes their body different from “normal”- intersex people just had this happen when it came to their sexual anatomy. The concept of “different bodies” really humanized intersex, and by extension, trans, people for me. You can physically see on an intersex body why gender is ambiguous. What’s not to say that trans people had different sex hormones in utero, and their brains are different? In order words- trans bodies are different too- we just can’t see the differences?

Finally, the third and last great thing about this movie is the story told by Alicia Roth Weigel. She is a beautiful, blond-haired, dress-wearing, very feminine looking woman. If you saw her on the street, you’d think she is a typical woman, but she has XY chromosomes! She is the perfect spokesperson to show that genital anatomy and chromosomes together don’t fit perfectly into two boxes. Trans stories are often told by people whose physical look is atypical for their gender. Ms Weigel tells her story as someone who identifies as a woman and also looks very feminine.

Finally a modern day intersex film!

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.

Understanding the “I” in LGBTQI+ — “People don’t know what it is”

Here’s a chance to learn about a marginalized population within the marginalized population of LGBTQI+ — intersex people.

The documentary focuses on three young adults with sexual characteristics traditionally associated with both males and females. The protagonists discuss their backgrounds, which could involve being told to keep their condition a secret. “Society is so binary,” we’re told. “You feel so alone…Your body is a problem.”

We also learn about efforts to improve things for new generations of the intersex, particularly by preventing childhood surgeries aimed at creating sexual consistency, done with parents’ consent but typically without the young patients’. At one demonstration, marchers chant, “Unless I say, scalpels away!”

The movie spotlights the tragic case of a young man who, due to a botched circumcision in childhood, was raised as a girl until he shed that identity. He eventually committed suicide. Excerpts from “Dateline” programs about the case point to problems in children being told what sex they are.