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From the director and team behind the award winning Netflix documentary DISCLOSURE (2020) comes Heightened Scrutiny, a searing, urgent portrait of trans resistance in a time of escalating attacks on trans healthcare, safety, and dignity. The film follows Chase Strangio, an ACLU attorney and the first known trans person to argue before the Supreme Court, as he fights a high-stakes legal battle to overturn Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth (United States v. Skrmetti).
Featuring expert insights from journalists such as Jelani Cobb, Lydia Polgreen, and Gina Chua, and trans activists like Laverne Cox and Elliot Page, Heightened Scrutiny exposes the dangerous role mainstream media plays in fueling anti-trans legislation and threatening democratic processes. Set before the devastating Supreme Court decision to allow bans on lifesaving care for trans youth, the film is a snapshot of the moment before the fall as well as a beacon from the near past to carry on the fight for justice.
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Screening in-person only.
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CREDITS
Amy Scholder,
Paola Mendoza
S. Mona Sinha,
Ruth Ann & William Harnisch,
Lisa Freeman,
Sara Hinkle
Elliot Page,
Phillip Picardi
Morgan D. Givens,
Ari Drennen,
Jude Ellison S. Doyle,
Kae Petrin,
Sabrina Imbler,
Alberto Cairo,
Mina Brewer,
Erin Reed,
Lewis Raven Wallace,
Tre’Vell Anderson
