Hermaphrodite Movie Analysis

The feature presentation we viewed in class was a movie I thought I would never see in my life time. Learning about the term “Hermaphrodite” and the actual story about why people use that particular term to describe a human being always struck my mind, and after seeing the film in conjunction with the reading the book Testo Junkie I am coming to grips with the term. That word is also used to describe the main character in the story Phoebe, a women who has mens chromosomes.
The first part of the movie starts out with Phoebe telling her story on how she was raised, and told to be a girl. But as she aged, she slowly began seeing that she was different from all of her other girlfriends she would hang out with. I loved how quickly Phoebe turned