The Blank Point is a personal view of the fragilities of transsexualism, the view of a woman from China where transsexualism is unknown and unimaginable. To Xiao-Yen Wang, the filmmaker, the concept of gender change is the miracle of Western medicine, an advance that blurs our precept, carved in stone, that men are men and women are women.

The Blank Point focuses on two male-to-female transsexuals and one female-to-male transsexual who talk about their psychological and physical changes during their transition. They talk about adjusting to a new identity, about family and societal rejection, about their sexuality, about their hopes and feelings.

 

Richard, female-to-male transsexual

Sarah, male-to-female transsexual

In The Blank Point Xiao-Yen Wang retraces her footsteps in trying to understand transsexualism, starting with her initial bewilderment. She frames the film within her thoughts, pulling the audience from one very small view into a broader reality.

Transsexualism's delicate complexities evaporate when they're not approached openly and with a strong curiosity—it's a world of private choices and difficult emotions not discernible on the surface. When stereotypes are realized as misconceptions, when a people's reality is recognized as it actually is, it broadens our understanding of human nature. The Blank Point seeks to make a hidden reality understandable to a general audience, to bring out the inner experience of transsexuals instead of following an outer look.