My Transsexual Summer (2011)

Genre

documentary television program, reality television series, LGBT-related television series

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Seven transgender people in different stages of transition spend five weekends together at a holiday home in Bedfordshire. They help each other through personal struggles and return to their everyday lives between the retreats.

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What happens

My Transsexual Summer is a British documentary-style reality series about seven transgender people in different stages of transition. For five weekends in the summer of 2011, they stay together in a large holiday home in Bedfordshire, where they meet and help each other with some of the struggles that transgender people face. Between these weekend retreats, they go back to their lives and real-world challenges. In the early 2010s, Channel 4 resolved to improve the accuracy and depth of their representation of transgender people. My Transsexual Summer was the first programme about transgender people they created after making this resolution. Channel 4 first broadcast the series in November 2011. It was rebroadcast in the UK on More4 in 2012, and on ABC2 in Australia in 2013. Also in 2013, two of the show's participants themselves started making documentary short films and videos about being transgender. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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