Available in full from Friday 6 p.m. on the France Télévisions platform dedicated to young adults, the fiction, crowned best French series at Séries Mania, will also be broadcast on France 5 in the evening.

In ten episodes of about twenty minutes, she retraces the quest for identity of Sasha (Angèle Metzger), the new high school girl, gendered for a few months as female after being raised as a boy, which her new students do not know. comrades.

Because Sasha, victim of a "lie" and multiple operations since childhood, discovered that she was born intersex, neither girl nor boy.

“The word intersex did not exist” at the end of the 1990s when Yaël Langmann witnessed, as a teenager, a similar realization on the part of a friend whose “identity construction completely collapsed”, relates- she told AFP to explain the origin of her project.

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"It was terrifying and overwhelming to watch. This very self-assured person was doing very well" until his doctor "balanced him that he is a hermaphrodite".

This term, "biologically erroneous" according to the intersex activist collective, since it designates "beings half-male, half-female, with a double functional genital apparatus" has since given way to intersex, which concerns up to 1 .7% of births and involves anatomical, chromosomal or hormonal characteristics not strictly pertaining to one or the other sex.

A taboo subject which has aroused "violent rejection" from producers approached by Yaël Langmann since she began writing her screenplay in 2012. Proof, according to the director, that "it was necessary to tell this story".

After a "long way of the cross", her project seduced producer Clara Laplace, in search of a series on adolescent malaise, then the France TV slash platform, at the forefront of diversity issues, more audible in a "world that has changed".

The result convinced the critics but was especially well received by the intersex community, rejoices Yaël Langmann, who made it a priority.

She thus asked Loé Petit, who co-founded the Intersexe collective, so as not to "betray" an entire community.

While best transcribing the feeling of being "abnormal and unsuitable", ultimately felt by "everyone around" Sasha.

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