I’m Just Anneke

“I’m Just Anneke” is a portrait of a 12-year-old girl who loves ice hockey and has a loving, close-knit family. Anneke is also a hardcore tomboy and everybody she meets assumes she’s a boy. The onset of puberty has created an identity crisis for Anneke. Does she want to be a boy or a girl when she grows up, or something in between? To give her more time to make a decision, her doctor has put her on Lupron, a hormone blocker that temporarily freezes her body in a pre-pubescent state. Despite rejection by her friends and struggles with suicidal depression, Anneke is determined to be true to herself and maintain a gender fluid identity that matches what she feels on the inside. “Anneke” takes us into the heart of a new generation of children who are intuitively questioning the binary gender paradigm. Winner of the Audience Award, Outfest Film Festival (2010) Winner of the Change Maker Award, Media That Matters Film Festival (2010) Official Selection: Silver Docs Film Festival (2010) & Tokyo Gay & Lesbian Film Festival (2010)