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The Rogers

Directed by Dean Hamer & Joe Wilson
2020
USA
16 mins
2020
USA
Documentary
Transgender
Native American/Indigenous
Short

An intimate glimpse of the first visible group of transgender men in the Pacific Islands: the Rogers of Samoa, whose stories reveal the challenges and possibilities of life in an island society rooted in culture and tradition.

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