Hungry Beast intersex story
A few weeks ago it was gay conversion, then labiaplasty. Now Hungry Beast is turning its attention to telling the story of two intersex people.
The ABC’s new part-current affairs, part-sketch show speaks to Zoe Brain, a 51-year-old aerospace engineer, who was born male. At the age of 47, her body suddenly changed to female over a three-month period.
The Hungry Beast team follows Brain’s meeting with 23-year-old graphic designer Natalie Kirk, who was born with female anatomy except for underdeveloped ovaries.
“For some people it’s just really hard to imagine anything but male and female. It’s just that some people aren’t either,” Kirk says.
The show looks at the secrecy intersex people are often forced into, despite one in 100 people being intersex.
Hungry Beast airs this Wednesday, March 17 on ABC1 at 9pm.
The show will be available for replay from iView from midnight.
info: Visit www.abc.net.au/hungrybeast
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Hear, hear, Esther! It’s a waste of air time. I watched the first episode and haven’t tuned in since. Apart from everything else Esther said, its scattershot approach means that no issue gets more than a passing glance (if that). ‘Current affairs’ for those who have the attention span of a goldfish.
Oh god. When will this show get cancelled? Another failed ABC attempt at ‘yoof culture’ that just comes off as embarrassingly cringe-worthy.
This is sure to be another overly-earnest segment, spliced with heart-wrenching violin music so they can really clobber you over the head with just how ‘gut wrenching it is’.
Self-indulgent, precocious twits the lot of them, that really have no interest in the gay community other than to hold them up as a freak show to amuse others.
Last time during Mardi Gras Hungry Beast allowed people to vilify us at time when we are celebrating who we are. It was simply disgusting. They even allowed people to go online and say how Evil we are.
The nutters who run Gay Conversion Therapies now rave about the program and use it as an example how people can stop being gay. It is all over there websites.
I hope they are not planning to vilify us again.