IDS 101: Born This Way - The Biology of Queer Lives: Videos

More than 450 different animals have been observed by scientists engaging in homosexual activity. Documentary, 2001, runs 56 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Can science predict sexual attraction? In a ground-breaking experiment, a team of scientists orchestrate a unique speed date with a hundred singletons to test their theories - with unexpected results. The scientists analyse our speed-daters bodies, faces, and psychological and social profiles to find out what the key predictors of sexual chemistry really are. Documentary, 2005, runs 50 minutes, from Academic Video Online.

Scientists realize that the differences between the sexes is "dangerously understudied". Segment from "60 Minutes" program aired May 22, 2014, runs 14 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Follows the gestation process, using computer generated graphics to reveal the biological choreography found in nature. A trillion cells come together to make each of us a unique individual. Focusing on the middle months of our time in the womb when we become unique individuals. Documentary, 2015, runs 56 minutes, from Academic Video Online.

This is a longitudinal study following the lives and development of 25 children born in 2000. Documentary, 2001, runs 51 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Based on the premise that males and females learn different ways to relate, this video investigates how communication styles fall onto a continuum of what society deems as masculine and feminine and what it means to deviate from the norm from the moment that the baby's gender is declared out loud. Educational video 2009, runs 21 minutes from Kanopy Video Collection.

What's the real difference between how boys and girls develop? Is it sugar and spice versus snails and puppy dog tails? Is it Mars versus Venus? What do these and other gender differences mean for parents and caregivers? Do they contribute to stereotypes? How can parents nourish the whole child? Produced 2002, runs 20 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Learn how you became the unique individual you are. No two people—even "identical"twins—are identical. Through riveting examples, explore how your face was shaped, why you’re likely to be right-handed, even how your sexuality formed. Documentary, 2016, runs 55 minutes from Kanopy Video Collection.

Explores Samoan fa'afafines, where boys who are raised as girls, fulfill a traditional role in Samoan culture. Documentary, 2000, runs 51 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Examines the International Olympic Committee requirement that sportswomen to pass a genetic sex test for gender before they are eligible for competition. Documentary, 1994, runs 30 minutes from Academic Video Online.

19 female-to-male transgender individuals living in the USA who have given birth and, in all but a few stories, gone on to raise their biological children. Documentary, 2016, runs 61 minutes from Kanopy Video Collection.

People who were assigned the wrong sex at birth who chose to change their gender very early during their progress towards adulthood. Documentary, 2016, runs 52 minutes with English subtitles from Academic Video Online.

An intimate portrait of one man’s struggle to reconcile his religious conviction and sexual identity as he attends conversion therapy in hope of changing his sexual orientation. Documentary, 2017, runs 90 minutes from Kanopy Video Collection.

Investigates the significant increase in gender dysphoria cases globally. These are people who don't identify with the gender they were assigned at birth. Follows the story of Jack, a 26 year old Ringsend transman reaching the later stages of his transition and dealing with massive body changes triggered by testosterone treatment and preparing for his first major surgery – a hysterectomy. Documentary, 2016, runs 53 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Growing numbers of children are transitioning, with new medical options, and at younger and younger ages. This video documents an intimate and eye-opening journey inside this new frontier -- where it's now possible for kids who feel they were born in the wrong body to never have to go through the puberty of their biological sex. Told from the perspective of eight transgender kids themselves, ranging in ages from 9 to 19. Documentary, 2015, running 86 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Studies show that as much as 1% of the population may be asexual. Living in a society obsessed with sex, how does one deal with life as an outsider? Documentary, 2012, runs 78 minutes from Academic Video Online.

An intimate look at how a few gay men negotiate the challenges of small-town living in rural Kendrick, Idaho, population 369. In a place so small, no one can be a stranger. Documentary, 2007, runs 58 minutes, from Academic Video Online.

In San Francisco,a significant portion of the population is homosexual, one of the largest gay communities in the world. In this city, homosexual parenthood is not a pilot project. Here, children of gay and lesbian parents are no longer exceptional nor isolated. Documentary, 2004, runs 48 minutes from Academic Video Online.

We hear about the subtle chauvinism by gay activists who excluded lesbians from their political and social life, especially in the conformist 1950s. Now, however, both sides seem willing to discuss these differences openly. Documentary, 1999, runs 57 minutes from Academic Video Online.

Explores the way femininity is constructed and altered in the lives of trans Latina immigrant women and the barriers they have overcome in pursuit of it. Documentary, 2014, runs 31 minutes with English subtitles from Academic Video Online.