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‘Heightened Scrutiny’ Review: A Transgender Attorney Heads to the Supreme Court in an Emotional and Informative Doc
Sam Feder’s documentary 'Heightened Scrutiny' follows an ongoing Supreme Court case regarding transgender rights.
United States v. Skrmetti is, at the time of the film’s Sundance premiere, still ongoing, and is set to determine whether Tennessee banning hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender youth violates the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. You could throw a penny blindfolded and have it land on a documentary that employs fleeting expert testimonials; where Feder’s movie stands apart is that none of its interviewees are mere talking heads — whether lawyers, journalists, parents of trans children, or celebrities like Peppermint and Laverne Cox. Beyond all the legal and even medical specifics resides a sense of communal understanding, and — at the risk of sounding mawkish — a deep and abiding love for one’s fellow human beings, which Feder taps into with aplomb.
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