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Trans in America: Texas Strong

Presented by the ACLU and Little by Little Films. Released in partnership with them

Directors Daresha Kyi | Cary Cronenwett
ProducersLindsey Dryden | Shaleece Haas
Executive ProducersMolly Kaplan | Chase Strangio

An intimate portrait of Kimberly and Kai Shappley: a mother rejecting her community’s beliefs as her 7-year-old transgender daughter navigates life at school, where she’s been banned from the girls’ bathroom.

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Pink Tiffany

SHAKTI PICTURES presents "PINK TIFFANY" featuring MEGHNA LAMA, LAXMI LAMA, PARBAT LAMA. 
Producer MIRANDA MORTON YAP
Director & Cinematographer SOPHIE DIA PEGRUM  

Though a legal recognition of a third gender highlights Nepal as a leader in transgender rights, in a culture that often values sons and daughters very differently, transforming into a daughter is fraught with obstacles. Meghna Lama shares the story of her quest to gain family acceptance and to become the extraordinary entrepreneur and activist she is today.

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A MAP OF GENDER-DIVERSE CULTURES

PBS Independent Lens
August 12, 2015 Updated Oct, 2023

Throughout recorded history and since time immemorial, thriving cultures have recognized, revered, and integrated more than two genders. Terms such as transgender, gay, or bisexual are Western constructs that often assume three things: that there are only two sexes (male/female), as many as three sexualities (gay/straight/bisexual), and only two genders (man/woman).

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How Ancient Mythologies Defy the Gender Binary

PBS FATE & FABLED
Season 1 Episode 8 | 8m 50s

Creation, transformation, and the quest for self-knowledge – these are universal themes that appear across world mythology. But there’s another common thread within these tales: gender fluidity. It’s not only commonplace in many mythologies, but an essential aspect of some important mythical figures: from androgynous creators and fertility deities to warriors and prophets that defy the binary.

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Gender beyond the binary

The Guardian
Irene Baqué and Freddy McConnell Jul 2017

Five non-binary people discuss their experience of life outside the simple gender binary of male and female. They tell us about the difficulty that society has with their resistance to its attempts to compartmentalise and define people.

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