Sex Change Hospital (2007)

Directed by

Chris McKim

Genre

docu-soap, documentary television program, LGBT-related television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary-style reality series that follows twelve transgender people as they undergo sex reassignment surgery at a hospital in Colorado. Patients share their personal stories and the series documents their consultations, surgeries, and recovery under the care of a doctor who is also transgender.

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What happens

Sex Change Hospital is an American documentary-style reality television series about 12 transgender people who have sex reassignment surgery at the Mt. San Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, Colorado, under the care of OB/GYN Marci Bowers. The patients talk about their lives and viewers follow them through their consultations with Bowers, the surgical procedures, and their post-surgical experience. Sex Change Hospital was produced by World of Wonder, and premiered in the United Kingdom on More4 in May 2007. In June, a 47-minute excerpt screened at the 31st Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco. After the series aired on US specialty channel WE tv in 2008, it was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Discovery Health rebroadcast the series in the US in 2009, and again in 2011 when it relaunched as Discovery Fit & Health. Bowers was the subject of the 2008 documentary Trinidad; she and her practice also feature in the final episode of TransGeneration, a documentary-style reality series that aired in 2005. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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