They and Them - Now Streaming on Docuseek
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They and Them
78 min. | Subtitled
A film by Ingrid Kamerling
"[Kamerling] has edited the footage for a well-rounded sense of what is involved in running the gender clinic, seeking assistance there, the involved process for treatment, assessments, and referrals for hormone inhibitors."
Modern Times Review
What do you decide as a practitioner with a thirteen-year-old who wants to change gender, but who has difficulty understanding all the consequences while the clinic you work in is creaking on all sides? They and Them is a fascinating portrait of an outpatient clinic in which ethical, financial and bureaucratic dilemmas compete for priority.

This gender clinic in Zaandam, Netherlands counsels youngsters who struggle with their gender identity. The advice of the gender clinic is considered the prelude to a change of sex in the passport, or a major medical treatment. We get acquainted with practitioners and all the dilemmas they represent. How do you give proper advice concerning irreversible choices that may mark the rest of people’s lives, while the outpatient clinic is struggling with its finances and the waiting list keeps getting longer? How do you deal with a low-IQ adolescent who wants to transition? What to do with feelings of doubt? And is there also room within the team for a conservative voice?
Many of the young people are experiencing depression and psychological distress for a very specific reason: the long waiting lists to be referred for gender transition treatment, as policymakers fail to prioritize their care as urgent and essential. The film, which gathers views from a number of perspectives and experiences, aims chiefly to be informative and convey reliable facts and insights, reducing the prevailing stigma and misinformation around gender transition and care that has been the basis of a firestorm of recent media controversy worldwide.

They and Them, which world premiered at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), from Dutch CORE, is now streaming exclusively on Docuseek for education.

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