The third act twist in “Conclave” has nothing on the labyrinth of secrets buried in Grace Hughes-Hallett’s documentary “The Secret of Me,” an intricate, shocking, and deeply affecting documentary about a medical scandal that has rocked the intersex community worldwide since the late 1960s. Rest assured that the subjects at the heart of this film are granted — and invited to demonstrate — a degree of interiority that was missing from the catty pope movie.

As much as the queer umbrella shelters a wide variety of non-hetero and non-cis identities, there’s been a glaring lack of popular and societal understanding — let alone acceptance or cinematic representation — of intersex folks, or what intersex even means (Julie Cohen’s energetic “Every Body” being a notable recent exception). It stands to reason that a scandal that has ruptured the fabric of the intersex community would also receive partial, inconsistent, and/or niche attention.