Bree è un transessuale. Alla vigilia dell'intervento chirurgico che la ridefinirà sessualmente, scopre di avere un figlio, Toby, nato vent'anni prima dal suo unico rapporto eterosessuale. La psicoterapeuta, che prepara Bree a "passare" alla sua nuova condizione sessuale, la costringe a confrontarsi con il ragazzo e con il passato. In caso contrario le negherà l'autorizzazione legale a procedere con l'operazione. Toby, intanto, arrestato per droga e prostituzione, ha bisogno di un padre. Abusato dal patrigno e precocemente orfano di madre, il ragazzo conduce una vita dissipata e promiscua. Sarà Bree a pagare la cauzione e il riscatto per una vita migliore, conducendo Toby in un viaggio di formazione attraverso l'America.

Focuses on three intersex individuals who overcame shame, secrecy and unauthorized surgery throughout their childhoods to enjoy successful adulthoods, choosing to ignore medical advice to conceal their bodies and coming out as who they truly are.

Six young people discuss the "gender affirming" medical care they received for gender dysphoria and how they subsequently came to believe this was the wrong treatment.

The painter Lili Elbe was the first person to have gender confirmation surgery in the 1930s. The homonymous opera is a glimpse into the life of Lili Elbe and her wife Gerda Wegener (also a famous painter) through Lili's transition at a time when such surgery was still completely uncharted territory.

Under constant pressure from her ex-husband, Nazanin should turn their child - Aban, nine years old - away from a very driven feminine taste. One day, Aban goes to the hospital thinking of undergoing life-changing surgery.

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.