Intersexion 12 years old

The first question any new parent asks… “Is it a boy or a girl?”

Director Grant Lahood follows Mani Bruce Mitchell, NZ’s first “out” intersex person, as he/she travels to meet other intersex people living in America, Ireland, Germany, South Africa and Australia. Expatriate Kiwi sexologist Dr John Money of the world renowned Johns Hopkins Medical School believed that gender was the product of “nurture not nature.” His studies into intersex people led to a particular surgical treatment model for babies born with ambiguous genitalia – the idea being that doctors could produce healthy and happy men and women by intervening early in an intersex child’s life. Usually that meant a family secret that had to be kept at all costs. But as the film shows, human sexual development is never that straight forward. This is a heart-warming story told with a mix of laughter and tears in the most frank and revealing way.

Credits

Intersexion Cast

Name	Character
Mani Bruce Mitchell	as Mani Bruce Mitchell

Intersexion Crew

Name	Department
Grant Lahood as Director.	Directing
John Keir as Producer. He was 155 (80) years old when He died	Production