The Secret of Me

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The Secret of Me

2025

1h 20m

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It's 1995 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During a feminist studies class, college student Kristi opens her textbook to discover something that turns her world upside down. For as long as she can remember, Kristi has felt different--now she knows why. Demanding her medical records, Kristi is finally confronted with the devastating truth: she has been lied to all her life by those she trusted the most. What follows is the unearthing of an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond her own life, leading to the discovery of a psychology experiment on a pair of twins--once hailed as a revolutionary success but now revealed to be a terrible lie affecting thousands around the world.

James Jackson

The Times (UK)

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4/5

There is so much to unpack from this film, not least the perspective it offered on the perennial debate of nature versus nurture.

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Anita Singh

Daily Telegraph (UK)

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4/5

[Jim Ambrose's] truth is laid out in this startling documentary, which burns with a sense of injustice.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Oct 14

3/5

The Secret of Me director Grace Hughes-Hallett has a slightly more tabloidy, heavy-handed style than that deployed by Cohen in Every Body, but the two films complement each other and serve this complicated, knotty subject well.

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Pat Stacey

Irish Independent

Jan 20

Depressingly, so-called corrective surgeries for intersex children still occur in most countries, and Money’s theories still appear in medical textbooks.

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Pat Mullen

POV Magazine

Oct 31

The film, while conventionally told in the fashion that many true crime docs are these days, arrives at a timely moment to add to the conversation about rights for people across the spectrum of gender identities.

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Grace Hughes-Hallett

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James Rogan

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Flora Stewart

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Mark Hedgecoe

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Nicholas Franklin

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Soleta Rogan

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It's 1995 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. During a feminist studies class, college student Kristi opens her textbook to discover something that turns her world upside down. For as long as she can remember, Kristi has felt different--now she knows why. Demanding her medical records, Kristi is finally confronted with the devastating truth: she has been lied to all her life by those she trusted the most. What follows is the unearthing of an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond her own life, leading to the discovery of a psychology experiment on a pair of twins--once hailed as a revolutionary success but now revealed to be a terrible lie affecting thousands around the world.

Director: Grace Hughes-Hallett
Producer: James Rogan, Flora Stewart
Production Co: Rogan Scotland, Film4 Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 20m