Transgeneration, Season 1
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Description
Across America, transgender college students are visible and political, and bravely challenge the status quo. In this eight-part original documentary series, filmmaker Jeremy Simmons follows a year in the lives of four transgender students as they define who they are and take control of their gender identity. Gabbie and Raci (born male, but now living as women) and Lucas and T.J. (born female, but now living as men) attend different campuses and come from varied social backgrounds, yet are all about to experience a pivotal moment in their lives.
| Name | Description | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoEpisode 1 | In the first episode, you'll meet the quartet of students as they each face unique struggles and hard choices in how to present themselves to their college peers. | 55:06 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoEpisode 2 | In episode two, Lucas briefly leaves Smith College to visit his rural Oklahoma family. During a frank and revealing conversation with his mother, Lucas explains the gender split between his body and his mind. Back in Los Angeles, Raci tries to locate a connection for cheap illegal hormones, and in Colorado Gabbie makes preparations for sex reassignment surgery. | 27:34 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoEpisode 3 | Episode three finds Gabbie so invested in her upcoming reassignment surgery that she has neglected her studies at the University of Colorado. On the West Coast, Raci pays a visit to her mother. T.J. and Lucas each decide that the time is right to compose extended letters home trying to explain the difficult decisions they have made. | 27:35 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoEpisode 4 | In episode four, Lucas undergoes an important rite of passage when he obtains his first hormone prescription. Leaving her Colorado campus, Gabbie spends a few days with her grandparents, a Presbyterian minister and his wife. T.J. makes plans for a short trip home to Cyprus. And Raci attends her cousin's lavish 18th birthday party. | 27:05 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoEpisode 5 | In episode five, Lucas prepares to defend his thesis and discovers he can't escape campus politics. At California State University, Raci's instructors are worried about her class attendance. Gabbie dresses up for her first racy party. And T.J. is elated as a romantic relationship develops with a fellow student. | 27:04 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoEpisode 6 | In episode six, T.J. and some of his friends visit the parents of his girlfriend. | 27:05 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoEpisode 7 | In episode seven, Raci decides she needs to ask for help obtaining hormones and later takes part in a transgender biking outing. | 27:06 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoEpisode 8 | In the hour-long concluding episode, T.J. returns to Cyprus and a difficult conversation with his mother. | 55:11 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | VideoReunion | The four college students who courageously chronicled a year in their lives as they underwent gender transition, in the original documentary series "TransGeneration," return in this half-hour follow-up directed by Jeremy Simmons. | 29:34 | $1.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 9 Episodes |
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Customer Reviews
As enjoyable as it is insightful
This beautifully-directed and composed documentary is a wonderful, eye-opening look into the world of these four transgender individuals. I saw the first episode at my college at an LGBT event, and I was moved and almost suprised by the amazing level of detail the producers got into in terms of these people's lives. The clear, stand-out favorite is Raci, who not only pulls off looking like a woman despite her male origins extremely well, she acts the part exceptionally well.
A Beautiful Documentary
I saw this documentary when it was on the Sundance Channel and it's so wonderful to see people showing a more sensitive side to trans people and not making them out to be the way Jerry Springer made them out to be. You'll see the world the way these strong people have to see it every day.
Great Series
I watched the whole thing on DVD with my friend, we're both trans, This is worth it if you have trans freinds or are a parent or are trans yourself.
- SD Version
- Genre: Nonfiction
- Released: Jul 09, 2007
- © 2007 Sundance Channel L.L.C.
