Film Series at Ithaca College to Screen Documentary on Sex Change Reversal

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Ithaca, NY – The Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen film series at Ithaca College will feature the documentary “Almost Myself: Reflections on Mending and Transcending Gender” on Monday, Oct. 15, at 7 p.m. in Textor 102. The screening is free and open to the public. The film tells the story of Judy Kirchner, a transgender woman who contemplates reversing her sex change as she approaches her 40th birthday.

After being born a male, having surgery and living nearly 20 years as a female, Kirchner had decided to become a guy again. Filmmaker Tom Murray, who was conducting research for a documentary on gay life in rural America, stumbled upon a website Kirchner had set up titled HelpMeReverseMySexChange.Org. “Almost Myself” is Murray’s story of how Kirchner unraveled her childhood medical history and fell into and out of the “clutches” of the ex-gay ministries, exploring just a small part of the vastly diverse transgender community.