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Porter Gale
Howard Devore
Jorge Daaboul
Kristi Bruce
Kristi Bruce
Jorge Daaboul
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Clitorectomy and other forms of sexually mutilating genital surgery are a reality here and now for children born with a clitoris that doctors or parents think is "too big." In this short documentary, Kristi Bruce and Howard Devore, both born intersex, talk eloquently and straightforwardly about their experience of a medical model based upon shame, secrecy, and forced "normalization." Physician Jorge Daaboul (Director of Pediatric Endocrinology at Oakland Children's Hospital in California) joins their call for an end to secrecy and mutilating genital surgery on intersex children.
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Winner of the Gold Medal (Documentary Category) at the 2001 Student Academy Awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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