The film XXY tells the story of a fifteen year old girl named Alex who was born intersexed. This film set in Uruguay, but Alex and her family are originally from Argentina. At birth her parents decided not to have the operation to remove her secondary sex organ, they just decided to raise Alex as a girl and when she is old enough allow her to choose what sex and gender she would like to be. At the beginning of the film, Alex's mom, Suli Kraken, states that Alex has stopped taking the medication that makes her look feminine. So their parents are wary that Alex will choose to be a boy and not a girl. A surgeon and his family come to visit the Kraken's. They have a boy named Alvaro, which Alex takes an interest in him from the moment that
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Alex is not sure whether she wants to be a boy or a girl. Towards the end Alex states in the film when her father asks her "until you can choose... what you want" she responds with "what if there is nothing to choose". I feel like she is stuck in between not fully knowing what she want to be for her sex and gender. She is confused and I feel having her go through the operation at fifteen is too young. When she is talking to Alvaro in the end of the film, Alvaro tells him that he loves her but she responds back with no. That he did not love her, but instead loved what she had. Implying that he is gay when she told him " what gives you more sadness, not seeing me anymore or not see it." Leaving the film to end with Alex being lost and Alvaro sexual confusion. In Judith Lorber article "Night to His Day" she describes that "we are uncomfortable until we have successfully placed the other person in a gender status" . Which is why once the people in the film found out that she was intersexed they felt uncomfortable and thought that there was something strange with her. Since her gender did not seem to match with her sex, since she had two types of sex. Being the reason that Alex had to move so much, this time with the rape that occurred she was just done with moving around. The film was not just if Alex will choose to become a boy or a girl, but about the struggles that one faces with their free will and choosing what they
Alex is not sure whether she wants to be a boy or a girl. Towards the end Alex states in the film when her father asks her "until you can choose... what you want" she responds with "what if there is nothing to choose". I feel like she is stuck in between not fully knowing what she want to be for her sex and gender. She is confused and I feel having her go through the operation at fifteen is too young. When she is talking to Alvaro in the end of the film, Alvaro tells him that he loves her but she responds back with no. That he did not love her, but instead loved what she had. Implying that he is gay when she told him " what gives you more sadness, not seeing me anymore or not see it." Leaving the film to end with Alex being lost and Alvaro sexual confusion. In Judith Lorber article "Night to His Day" she describes that "we are uncomfortable until we have successfully placed the other person in a gender status" . Which is why once the people in the film found out that she was intersexed they felt uncomfortable and thought that there was something strange with her. Since her gender did not seem to match with her sex, since she had two types of sex. Being the reason that Alex had to move so much, this time with the rape that occurred she was just done with moving around. The film was not just if Alex will choose to become a boy or a girl, but about the struggles that one faces with their free will and choosing what they