Monika Treut: Gendernauts – A Journey Through Shifting Identities

Gendernauts explores phenomena of gender fluidity at the end of the millennium in California. It is a film about cyborgs, people who alter their bodies and minds with new technologies and chemistry, with an emphasis on biological women who use the male sexual hormone testosterone. We get to know Max Wolf Valerio, Max, A Man; Jordy Jones; Texas Tomboy; Stafford, who together with Jordy Jones, organizes “Club Confidential,“ the world's leading gender bender event. We meet Hida, an intersexed woman, and two extraordinary biological women who support transgender people: sex goddess Annie Sprinkle and ex-model Tornado, who was Stafford's lover and is the self-proclaimed mother of Texas Tomboy.