TransGeneration

This is an excellent movie! I can't believe it! Really lets everyone experience someone else's life! Very cool!

This documentary is an 8 part series about transgendered people. (2 male to female and 2 female to male) All four of them are college students and we see how they live their daily lives, who they hang out with or pair up with, and how they deal with others around them.

Raci is a filipina girl going to Cal State LA and decides that she doesn't want to share her background with anyone just yet. She has a very supportive family and had been dressing like the opposite sex since she was 9 years old. She is basically trying to keep her 3.5 GPA while on a scholarship and meet other people. She starts taking hormones illegally.

TJ is a guy living in Michigan who is originally from Cyprus. After his scholarship is up, he has to go back to Cyprus for two years. His family is not so supportive. He mentions that his mom could easily convince him to be "Tamar" again, because she has that much power over him.

Lucas is a male going to an all female college. He has other transgendered friend who goes to the same college who he has become close to. His mom, though trying her best to accept him, shows how hard it may be for a parent (or parents) to accept that the baby they once had, is now a different gender, though they are the same person inside. We also see his father and he develop a different kind of relationship with many touching moments.

Gaby is a female living in Colorado and going to school there. She is learning to be social in general, because she mentioned that the year before, she was more of a hermit. Through the documentary, we see that she will have the 15,000 dollar sex change operation with very supportive parents and grandparents. She identifies herself as bi or a lesbian, which shows that sexuality and gender are completely different things.

These characters are typical teenagers struggling through the same problems that we all have struggled through, and more. These people are not weird, sick, or strange, with the exception of Gaby, who seems to have some issues. This DVD answers many questions about transgendered people and is highly educational and entertaining. One of the doctors mentioned that there are 10,000 transgendered people in Los Angeles County alone. I recommend this documentary to anyone who has questions about transgenered people, and people who have (or would like to have) a more open mind.

Recommended.

When one follows their body's (mind) calling (F to M or M to F) there is a price to pay. Mentally,friends, jobs, and money. This film gives insight to the problems youth face to change their body to the correct gender. I wanted to do it in 1963 but did not know what was bothering me. After the internet at the age of 73 I completed my change to a transwoman. I hope this film helps our youth to search for help if they are questioning their self.
Billie

A very entertaining and useful documentary to my collection. You get drawn into the lives and struggles of the 4 students as they go thur their school year. Very useful to non TG who are trying to understand by showing them a "human" face to TG's struggles without it being dry like a normal documentary or fictionalize as in a movie.

Anybody who thinks this is "autogynephilia" needs to actually meet a transsexual. I'm sincerely sick of this explanation and the idea that Raci and Gabbie in particular should have delved deeper into their sex lives. Why should they? This series was not made for the sexual gratification of people watching it. There are plenty of other shoddy transgender documentaries and films which concentrate on sex, go watch one of those.