Octopus Alarm

Original title: Tintenfischalarm
Duration: 108 min
Release date: 2006-02-11
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Alex is intersex. Although he has XY chromosomes, his sex is ambiguous. When Alex was an infant, his mother authorised genital reassignment surgery, and he was thereafter raised female. Now Alex is an adult, and he is consumed by feelings of anger and loss. After meeting other "XY women" and doing a lot of soul-searching, he decides he wants to live as a man.

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Tintenfischalarm

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