One in 2000 (2007)

One in 2000 2007 Every parent-to-be hopes for a “perfect“ baby, but what does that actually mean? Every newborn is different, but some of those differences are scarier to parents than others. Each year an estimated one in two thousand babies are born with anatomy that doesn’t clearly mark them as either male or female -- with what is known as an intersex condition. It’s a situation that’s hard to talk about; it challenges our preconceptions about how things are “supposed“ to be. This provocative documentary demystifies the issue of sexual difference. At a time when five babies a day in the United States are having “gender reassignment“ surgery, it argues that there is little evidence that such surgery is beneficial to the child. The program profiles several people born with ambiguous sexual anatomy, who have managed to deal with some very difficult family and social issues, but today are living “ordinary“ and productive lives.