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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Claudette

Director: Sylvie Cachin
Release Year: 2008

Synopsis:
"Claudette was born with both male and female genitals, lovingly supported by her Swiss parents, who raised her in Morocco as a boy with a gender-flexible name. At a young age Claude fell in love with an older neighbor, a relationship that lead into a brothel..."

"Later married with two children, Claudette eventually took up her profession again as well as the role of fierce activist, speaking to the European parliament, other prostitutes from a stage and potential clients on the street."

"Claude was born in Switzerland as a hermaphrodite, with both male and female sex organs, and while he was raised as a boy, as a teenager a friend persuaded him to try turning tricks as a woman, and he discovered he enjoyed sex both as a male and a female. Through most of his life, Claude lived as a man, and married a woman with whom he raised two children. But after Claude went broke and his marriage fell apart, he returned to prostitution to support himself."
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