TransGeneration
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| TransGeneration | |
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 Back:: Director Jeremy Simmons, Producer Thairin Smothers, Gabbie. Front: TJ, Lucas, Raci |
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Running time | 60 Minutes |
| Creator(s) | Jeremy Simmons and Thairin Smothers |
| Starring | Andrea Gabrielle Gibson Raci Ignacio Lucas Cheadle Trent Jackson Jourian |
| Country of origin | USA |
| Original channel | Sundance Channel |
| Original run | September 20–November 8, 2005 |
| No. of episodes | 8 |
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TransGeneration is an eight episode documentary series depicting the lives of four transgender college students as they attempt to balance college, their social lives, and their current gender transitions. Some people feel that TransGeneration attempts to create a more accurate view of transgender people than other shows depicting them, and that it focuses less on the medical side of the experience and more on the people as real human beings.
TransGeneration is shown on the LGBT television network Logo, was broadcast weekly on the Sundance Channel from September to November of 2005 and released as a feature film at some festivals and independent theatres.
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- Andrea Gabrielle Gibson aka Gabbie, born Andrew, is a male-to-female college student attending the University of Colorado, where she majors in computer science. Gabbie has struggled with her identity since high school. She began taking hormones and living as a woman during her freshman year in college. She is a resident assistant on campus, where she receives special accommodation by having a single room with her own bathroom. She becomes actively involved in campus-based GLBT activities, while anticipating her upcoming sexual reassignment surgery, for which her parents have agreed to pay.
- Raci Ignacio aka Raycee, born Roy, is a male-to-female college student attending California State University, Los Angeles on a merit-based scholarship. Born in the Philippines, she moved to the United States at the age of fifteen and is dealing with hearing impairment, speaking English as a second language, and being away from her mother for the first time, in addition to her transsexuality. She tries to fit in as a normal girl and is reluctant to reveal that she is trans.
- Lucas Cheadle, born Leah, is a female-to-male transsexual attending the all-female Smith College in Massachusetts. His best friend is also a female to male transsexual who has been undergoing hormone therapy for several months. Now, in his senior year, as a neuroscience major, Lucas is beginning to feel that it is time to start the physical side of his transition, and he begins taking testosterone injections. He is afraid to come out to his father, who had divorced and moved away since Lucas was nine, even though he is out to his mother and brother.
- Trent Jackson Jourian aka TJ, born Tamar, is a female-to-male transsexual attending Michigan State University. He is a graduate student from Cyprus, attending college on a Fulbright Scholarship, and currently pursuing a degree in Student Affairs Administration. Outgoing and involved, he has openly expressed his male identity since he was a young child and is very active in the transgender community on campus. As TJ plans to visit his family, which he sees as unsupportive, over the summer break, he realizes that he must confront his family for the final time, and may never be able to return home again.
