Gender diversity & identity in Queertopia - VPRO documentary

What means gender diversity and gender identity nowadays? And what does gender diversity include? What if you are born with a body that does not meet society’s typical idea of ‘man’ or ‘woman’? Gender diversity has become more and more important and discussed. That´s why we are investigating the world of gender diversity, identity and sexual diversity. You’ll no longer hear the announcement ’ladies and gentlemen’ when travelling through a train station in the Netherlands. This has been replaced with ’dear passengers’, to include all travelers: ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and everyone who does not feel comfortable within that traditional binary. Before we are born we are already put in boxes. From then on, we are socialized to understand the world through so-called ‘false oppositions’ that are like the sun and the moon, as if they cannot both be present at the same time: if you are a man you are not a woman, and vice versa. In this documentary, we explore the future of se