There is always one question that comes to our mind when we see a pregnant woman, is it a girl or a boy? It seems like we don't have any other options to be. Because of the heteronomy, we are defined to be only a male or a female depending to our gender identities and our gender roles. Gender role is specified within the society by dressing style, parlance and behaviors. However, gender identity is formed with the help of inheritance and external factors. In instance, how you feel about yourself and your instincts show your gender identity, while your dresses represent your gender role within the society which you live in. According to the gender roles which society give us, we are expected to act normal related to our gender identity. At this point, a question arises: "what is normal?". When we view from heteronomic perspective, there are two norms for the individuals. Either you should be a male and have behaviors for men or you should be a female and act like women. Hence, there are black and white without any different color. Everything in this world is formed to fit in this manner. Despite the fact that we have seen different and unusual occurrences like in the movie. The reason of calling them different and unusual is very obvious after we encounter with heteronomy. Because of the society, we internalize the normality of genders as we born.The idea of having two sexes is very complicated and nonsensical for the today's world and its gender roles. A little while ago, homosexuality were seen as a disorder and doctors were trying to cure that. In other words, they were searching for a way to normalize the person who were homosexual. By the way, we still have societies who believe and agree on that. I observe the same attitude for the people who have both sexes. It appears that we have become more develop some way or another, in this movie, Alex who is hermaphrodite, refuses to be operated to deform herself either a man or a woman. She is a naturally born individual with both genders. Understanding herself and deciding what she wants are vital and it should be only her concern. Her parents want Alex to be a girl, however first she starts to discover herself and her preferences. Although all reactions and attitude from her community, she decides to remain what she is. We should ask ourselves if we have right to choose both. We are stucked in the boundaries between the accepted definitions of male and female that demonstrates homophobia inherent in forcing the "unusual" to be "normal." It's more of an inborn perception that anatomical sex which is defined systemically base sociological gender norms and gender identities, is entirely reversed that a biological difference produces social consequences at our security in the human identity. This unsettling and distressful occurrence has a power to overthrow our presumptions about sex and gender identity. Not only our presumptions, also our beliefs are challenged in such a way. By this opinion, we should critique about our social indoctrinations and associations between external rules and gender.

I bought this movie through the Amazon Marketplace based on the high rating and many positive reviews. And now having seen the movie, I sit with a somewhat disappointing feeling. The movie wasn't bad or anything, but it wasn't as amazing as people apparently made it out to be.The story was good and interesting, but the story wasn't given all the time needed to fully utilize every potential it had. It felt like running out of time really cut the movie short at a much too early moment.It should be said that "XXY" is actually a movie experience that should be seen, because it has a beautiful storyline. But more so, it was brought to the screen by a group of very talented actors and actresses, and had a skilled director pulling the strings.I am rating "XXY" a mere five out of ten stars, because it didn't live up to what the reviews and ratings had made it up to be. Sure it was a beautiful movie in many ways, but it was a real shame that it didn't see all of its potential, because it could have been so much more.

It's like they intentionally made the weirdest movie they could think of. It's weirder than Psycho (not better, just weirder). She has tits and a dick. So what does she do with it? She sodomizes a boy! Considering the fact that lesbians use dildos on each other, you would think that would be her natural mode of operation. Instead, they promote sexual confusion, the worst of both worlds, that is sodomy. And when she gets a chance to use it for what it's meant for, she walks away from the opportunity. Reminds me of Psycho's shower scene, minus the blood, the music, or anything else entertaining. Making it something you just really didn't want to see.

I actually think this is one of the better inter-sex movies out there, even though I think it stalls somewhat on its own content. But what really irks me are reading reviews with verbiage like;patient, abnormality, defect, diagnoses and the like. This isn't about a 'medical disorder', but very possible another gender that defies traditional male/female definitions. Since there's always been sexual reassignment surgery with these people, many at birth, who's to say if left alone they wouldn't morph into happy, adjusted individuals that just form another non-traditional gender? I think if you watch this movie through non-traditional eyes, you will most likely get more from it. Alex makes the plea at one point;"Why do I have to be cut at all?" Yes indeed, why? Inter-sex people have been around since the beginning of the human race. The medical community traditionally has made these people lab rats, why don't we set them free?