Article: Screening the borderland: transsexualism as cinematic metaphor.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)

Transsexuals are individuals born with the physiological and chromosomal identity of one gender, but who mentally and emotionally believe they belong to the opposite gender. They consider their condition a mistake of nature, a congenital anomaly. The medical term for transsexualism is "Gender Identity Disorder." The term "transgenderism" is used in a broader sense and as a definition/description of gender identity variations that include transvestites, cross-dressers, transsexuals, persons of ambiguous genitalia, and hermaphrodites.

--Dr. Sherman Leis, Philadelphia sex-reassignment specialist

In an early scene from Duncan Tucker's Transamerica (2005), ...

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