KEYWORDS: Intersex, medical ethics, gender

‘After demanding his medical records, Jim discovers that like many intersex people, a gender presentation, carried out through invasive operations,  was constructed for him in childhood. It is common practice for intersex children to never be told the truth of what happened to them. We follow the aftermath of these invasive interventions, supported by fraudulent research and celebrated by doctors, though the real results show a very different story. As Jim makes very clear, this is not a transgender story. It’s one that highlights the problem of a binary understanding of gender, asking us to consider the continued medicalisation of our bodies and our identities, and questions who it is that tells us who we are.’ – Sheffield Doc Festival