Release Date

28 Sep, 2019

Runtime

01:33: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

When you see yourself, who do you see?

Soon after New York state passed a 2015 law that health insurance should cover transgender-related care and services, director Tania Cypriano and producer Michelle Hayashi began bringing their cameras behind the scenes at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, where this remarkable documentary captures the emotional and physical journey of surgical transitioning. Lending equal narrative weight to the experiences of the center’s groundbreaking surgeon Dr. Jess Ting and those of his diverse group of patients, BORN TO BE perfectly balances compassionate personal storytelling and fly-on-the-wall vérité. It’s a film of astonishing access—most importantly into the lives, joys, and fears of the people at its center.

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Actors

Leiomy Maldonado

Garnet Rubio

Mahogany Phillips

Jess Ting

Jordan Rubenstein

Shawn Frederick Sr.

Cashmere

Crew

Eliott Taylor

Tania Cypriano

Molly M. Fowler

Susan Norget

Christopher White

J. Winkelried

Michelle Koo Hayashi

Rachel Mills

Jessica Kingdon

Mattison Thor Carter

Heidi Reinberg

Troy Herion

Brad Wickham

Scott K. Foley