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Article: Screening the borderland: transsexualism as cinematic metaphor.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
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- December 22, 2009
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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), ...