My Transsexual Summer
- Director: Helen Richards
- Producer: Rosie O'Connor; Elaine Stoneham
CGiii Comment
7 people, all at different levels in their transition...eclectic in character and background...but, united in the common goal for self-acceptance. Something that most of us simply take for granted.
The camera presents us with smiles and happy faces but...Sarah (I look like a bad trannie) and Fox (with major beard envy) are at the start of their transition...troubled and troubling times ahead...with peer support, perhaps their hard journey can be made a little easier...time will tell.
Hopefully, the main reasoning behind this series is to educate those who think that this is just novelty, a joke.
By the end of the series, fingers crossed, those agents of ridicule will be able to recognise the unequivocal bravery on show and respond with the warranted respect that all who face transition deserve.
Special mention must go to one incredible mother...you are special.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Channel 4 follows seven transgender men and women as they come together to share their intimate and on-going experiences of changing gender in a new four-part series.
These seven bright, funny and articulate individuals, who are undertaking some of the most profound changes any human being can go through, give uniquely personal insights into what it's like to change gender in Britain in 2011.
Each of the seven is trying to live in a society that routinely misunderstands them, regularly mocks them, and all too frequently assaults them - just because they are different.
For five weekends spread over four months, this group of mostly twenty somethings will come to a retreat - a safe haven away from the pressures of the world around them - where they can support each other, understand each other, and guide one another through the next critical stages of their journey to becoming the men and women they have always wanted to be.
Cast & Characters
Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham;
Fox Fisher;
Karen Gale;
Lewis Hancox;
Sarah Savage;
Nina Sosanya as Narrator;
Donna Whitbread;
Maxwell Zachs