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Heterophobia is a form of bigotry practiced by homosexuals and radical German filmmaker Monika Treut has been trying to do this for years. This time out, she takes radical feminist and self-proclaimed "Queen of Cyberspace" Sandy Stone to San Francisco where they will explore the lives of a few transsexuals and try to show that they're normal and the rest of us are perverts. Now I'm not saying that sexual reasignment surgery is a BAD thing. There are several thousand people who go through major mental anguish and absolutely need it to be able to lead relatively happy lives. It's a well documented fact. But that, unfortunately is not the point of the documentery. Yeah, there's a trip to San Fran's Transgender clinic, where people can get cheap hormone treatments, but most of what we've got is porn star Annie Sprinkle, star of stage, screen and radio, showing clips of a film she made with a friend of hers who through the miracle of modern surgery is now a hermaphrodite, alll the while proclaiming her dream that everyone will soon be transexual. Stone's rantings about "gender being merely an artificial cultural construct" brings home the point: Normality is bad. Jeez.... Much of the film is taken up with warm portraits of Jordi Jones, Texas Tomboy and Max Valerio, all of whom are female-to-male transexuals and for the most part are pretty boring people. This is in fact, a very boring movie. I nearly fell asleep. Eric Lurio
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Richard E. Schiff
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