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Gender: A Wider Lens

87 — Medical Technology & Ethics w Jennifer Lahl

Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6961 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Jennifer Lahl is the founder and

president of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network. She has 25

years of experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, hospital

administrator, and senior-level nursing manager, and more recently,

she’s also become a successful filmmaker. In 2010, she made her

writing, producing, and directing debut producing the documentary

film

Eggsploitation,

which has been awarded Best Documentary by the California Independent

Film Festival and has sold in more than 30 countries. She is also the

Director, Executive Producer, and co-writer of Anonymous

Father’s

Day

(2011), a documentary film exploring the stories of women and men who

were created by anonymous sperm donation. In 2014 she completed three

films on the ethics of third-party reproduction, aka surrogacy, with

a trilogy called: Breeders:

A

Subclass

of

Women?.

In July 2015, she released a documentary short called

Maggie's

Story,

which follows one woman’s egg donation journey. Lahl’s next

feature film, #BigFertility

was released in the fall of 2018.

And of course, we were particularly

interested in Jennifer’s films that focus on gender medicine. Trans

Mission:

What’s

the

Rush

to

Reassign



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0:00.0

You're listening to gender, a wider lens.

0:04.0

I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.

0:06.5

And I'm Sasha Ayad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.

0:10.6

Since 2016, my practice has been exclusively dedicated to gender questioning teens

0:16.1

and families impacted by gender dysphoria.

0:19.0

I also work with gender questioning teenagers and I facilitated support meetings for families and

0:24.2

individuals who have been impacted by gender issues. We're curious about the

0:28.0

concept of gender and how it's unfolding in the wider culture. Join us as we look at gender through a wider lens.

0:35.0

Jennifer Lull is founder and president of the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network.

0:42.0

She has 25 years of experience as a piece of Center for Bioethics and Culture Network.

0:43.0

She has 25 years of experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, hospital administrator, and senior level

0:48.8

nursing manager, and more recently she's also become a successful filmmaker.

0:53.3

In 2010 she made her writing, producing, and directing debut

0:57.2

with the documentary film Exploitation, which was awarded best documentary

1:02.1

by the California Independent Film Festival,

1:04.5

and has sold in more than 30 countries.

1:07.2

She's also director, executive producer, and co-writer of anonymous Father's Day, a 2011 documentary exploring the stories of men and women who were created by anonymous sperm donations.

1:20.0

In 2014, she completed three films on the ethics of third-party reproduction, also known as

1:26.2

surrogacy, with a trilogy called Breeders, a subclass of women.

1:31.7

And in 2015, she released a documentary short called Maggie's Story

1:35.8

which follows one woman's egg donation journey. Her next feature film Big Fertility

1:41.3

was released in the fall of 2018. Of course we were particularly interested

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