“Intersex People Don’t Need To Be Fixed”: Grace Hughes-Hallett on The Secret of Me
A seemingly breakthrough medical innovation from the ’60s set off a still-ongoing worldwide trend of surgeries performed on “atypical” babies, celebrated in the context of the gender equality movements of the 70s. Over the long tail of history, the trauma inflicted by innovation revealed those marginalized by the results: a largely hidden and, per the stats, sizable community of people worldwide assembled under the queer umbrella. Premiering at SXSW 2025, The Secret of Me is British director Grace Hughes-Hallett’s directorial debut, but you may already know her as the producer of 2018’s Three Identical Strangers. The main subject of The Secret of […] The post “Intersex People Don’t Need To Be Fixed”: Grace Hughes-Hallett on The Secret of Me first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.


A seemingly breakthrough medical innovation from the ’60s set off a still-ongoing worldwide trend of surgeries performed on “atypical” babies, celebrated in the context of the gender equality movements of the 70s. Over the long tail of history, the trauma inflicted by innovation revealed those marginalized by the results: a largely hidden and, per the stats, sizable community of people worldwide assembled under the queer umbrella. Premiering at SXSW 2025, The Secret of Me is British director Grace Hughes-Hallett’s directorial debut, but you may already know her as the producer of 2018’s Three Identical Strangers. The main subject of The Secret of […] The post “Intersex People Don’t Need To Be Fixed”: Grace Hughes-Hallett on The Secret of Me first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.