We are extremely excited to announce the international premiere of LET US BE, a new documentary exploring the lives of intersex people in India, Brazil, and America, as an official selection of the Raindance Film Festival in London. With the past few years witnessing continued and even renewed attempts of erasure of intersex people in many parts of the world, it seems this documentary is needed now more than ever.

In the US in particular, the attempted erasure of intersex citizens has been deliberate and far reaching, with the current administration immediately declaring that there are only two sexes, and codifying definitions of male and female that do not account for thousands of intersex Americans. In this vein, they also rescinded availability of X sex/gender markers on US passports. These markers were made available in 2022 due to the hard work of our Associate Director Dana Zzyym, who obtained the first X passport in the country to accurately identify themselves as intersex and non-binary, with representation by Lambda Legal.

Directed by Brazilian Viviane D’Avilla, and produced by Dona Rosa Films (Brazil) and Social Consruct Films (US), LET US BE makes it clear that intersex people are a biological reality, just lke typical males and females, and that we have always existed. The documenatary also highlights our community’s diversity, featuring intersex people from multiple generations with different intersex variations, lived experiences, and ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.

We commend and thank the team that made this beautiful film a reality, and all the intersex people who bravely shared themselves and their stories in the documentary! They are: Brazilian Carolina Iara, the first intersex publicly elected official in Latin America, Dr. Tiger Devore, American psychologist, activist, and the first openly intersex person in *Western society, PhD scholar and activist Aanandh Rajappan, from Kerala, India, social scientist Vidda Guzzo, with Intersexo Brasil, American yoga teacher and social media influencer Lyss Ball, and our founder and ED Hida Viloria, a writer and author who is also an executive producer and story writer for LET US BE. The doc also features brief but powerful appearances by intersex children in India via conversations with their parents, American Navy veteran and IC4E Associate Director Dana Zzyym, and American scientist Veronica Rosenberger.

We will be sharing information regarding national premeires here as the documentary’s distibution journey continues.

* Note: We specify Western society because there have historically been, and are still a few, indigenous cultures in which intersex citizens are accepted and don’t have to hide their intersex status.