Special Report: Julie Cohen on Every Body (2023)

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🗓️ 9 June 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode, Mike talks with director Julie Cohen (RBG, Julia) about her latest documentary, Every Body, an examination of Intersex people and their treatment.

The film plays at Tribeca 2023 before opening June 30, 2023.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.0	Shut it off.
0:25.7	Turn it off.
0:26.6	Turn it off.
0:31.6	Just existing as an intersex person is grounds for celebration.
0:43.3	Three, two, one.
0:48.3	Society generally considers that biological sex is cut and dry.
1:00.0	Actually, it's not cut and dry.
1:03.0	We don't fall neatly into that male-female box.
1:06.0	I was born intersex, and although I was born with a vagina, I was also born with internal testes.
1:13.6	We live in a society that is so binary.
1:17.6	So it's an intersex person.
1:19.6	Where do I fit?
1:20.6	The definition of intersex is any variation in a person's sex characteristics.
1:26.6	They told my mom, you have a child that we feel is abnormal,
1:30.3	and this body was a problem that needed to be fixed.
1:33.3	Fixed, and that I should never tell anyone about it.
1:36.3	It's therapeutically highly desirable to have them surgically corrected at an early age.
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