JUST GENDER tackles the all too often misunderstood world of transgender. Through interviews of transgendered persons, their family members and friends, health care experts, community leaders and others who work with the transgender community, the film explores the common myths and misunderstandings about transgendered people.

The documentary also explores the confusion between sexual orientation and gender identity, as reflected in the rigid binary view of the world generally held by society and touches on the discrimination, hardships and brutality resulting from those misconceptions and prejudices, including the numerous deaths caused by hate each year.

Also explores the diversity of persons under the broad umbrella of "transgender", including cross dressers, gender questioning, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, and female-to-male and male-to-female transsexuals. Through the stories of transgender individuals and their spouses, friends, and allies, we explore the confusion, the isolation, and the fear felt by many transgender persons. We also see their growing awareness and acceptance, and ultimately their joy in blossoming comfort as transgendered persons. In this context, the film will explore their first awareness of having "different" feelings, the challenges of growing up with secret longings, the sting of discrimination and the consequences of hateful acts by others. The varied paths by which these persons, like many of the transgender community, have come to terms with life and embraced their nature, becomes a central story in this documentary.

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JUST GENDER is available in a special 22 minute version for schools #15829.