Product Description
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What is it like to be a man trapped in a woman's body? How does
a woman become a man? TRANSGENERATION, a dramatic and mesmerizing
eight-part series, is a year-in-the-life look at four college
students--Gabbie, Lucas, Raci, and T.S.--who are juggling the
challenges of academia with their commitment to transition from
their birth sex.
Faced with life-altering choices--about how to deal with parents
and society, whether or not to take hormone therapy and undergo
sex re-assignment surgery--these four remarkable individuals deal
with their deeply misunderstood identities in starkly unique
ways. In every moment of this radical, paradigm-busting film,
these collegiate transgendered students blow up stereotypes while
coming to terms with how to change their bodies to fit their
minds.
DISC 1:
EPISODE 1: Meet Raci, Gabbie, Lucas, & T.J.
EPISODE 2: Lucas visits family & Raci seeks illegal hormones.
EPISODE 3: T.J. & Lucas write home to explain their decisions
EPISODE 4: Gabbie visits her grandparents & T.J. plans a trip
home to Cyprus.
EPISODE 5: Raci's class attendance drops while Lucas takes on
campus politics.
EPISODE 6: Raci openly attends a LGBT meeting as Lucas
celebrates a turning point.
DISC 2:
EPISODE 7: Gabbie gets a pre-op dinner party and T.J. prepares
to return home.
EPISODE 8: One last visit with Raci, Gabbie, Lucas, & T.J.
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Told with compassion and in, the fascinating eight-episode
documentary TransGeneration focuses on the lives of four college
students struggling to fit into a society that doesn't understand
why they are the way they are--that is, transgendered young
adults trapped in bodies that belie their true selves. Gabbie and
Raci deal with their issues in vastly different ways.
Sex-reassignment surgery is expensive, and is a procedure many
transgendered folks can't afford. But money is no object for
Gabbie--the first-born son of an affluent family--and she
literally counts the days until her scheduled .She has
no problem telling her classmates she's transgendered and
believes surgically ridding herself of her penis will complete
her life. Raci, also 19, is deaf and poor. An immigrant from the
Philippines, she resorts to purchasing female hormone s off
the street because that's all she can afford. Though she's
hopeful at the start of the school year that the kids are "tranny
friendly," Raci lives in constant fear that she will be
ostracized if her true identity is found out. When people ask her
about the camera crew following her around, she mumbles that
she's part of a documentary about women in college.
The two female-to-male subjects are no less complicated. Lucas
is tired of being asked about transsexuals and transgendered
people, but he's also aware that as one of the few males at an
all-female school (Smith College), people are curious about his
beginning college as a woman and graduating as a man. A
neuroscience major, he's worried about hormones potentially
shaving years off his life. TJ, an Armenian grad student, is
self-assured and a leader on campus. But when he calls his mother
back home, he's reduced to an unsure child who doesn't want to
disappoint his family. In Cyprus, where he grew up, TJ was known
as Tamar, a gorgeous gamine of a girl. He wants to return home as
TJ, but is worried about the ramifications against his mother in
their tight knit community.
Transitioning into adulthood is an awkward and painful phase for
many teens, who're unsure of who they are and what they want to
be. The four subjects of TransGeneration know they don't want to
be what they were born as. The documentarians are careful not to
present them as martyrs or perverts, but rather as
full-dimensional people who're ed, curious, and hopeful about
what the future holds in store for them. --Jae-Ha Kim