Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: NEW VIDEO GROUP INC
EAN: 0767685977330
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 10
Label: New Video Group
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Manufacturer: New Video Group
MPN: NVG-9773
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: New Video Group
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Running Time: 272 minutes
Studio: New Video Group
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 2005

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
While Hollywood brings tales such as Duncan Tucker's TRANSAMERICA to the screen in real life transgender people from both sexes struggle to find their place in society. TRANSGENERATION is an eight-part TV series that follows four college students as they try to alter their natural gender while musing on how they've managed it and the various problems they all face.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 767685977330 Manufacturer No: NVG-9773

Amazon.com:
Told with compassion and insight, 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 treatment.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 shots 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 scared, curious, and hopeful about what the future holds in store for them. --Jae-Ha Kim




Rating: - An impressive piece of work - informative and entertaining!
I was quite impressed with this documentary. Rather than being exploitive , it was interesting and insightful and treated the four participants as real human beings with more than one dimension. I really wish they would make a follow up to let us know how things have turned out for them all, especially Gabbie. Highly recommended!

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Rating: - Thinking Trans Gender
"Trans Generation"

Thinking Trans Gender

Amos Lassen

Everyday we seem to learn about the discrepancies of gender. This documentary, an eight part series about four people who are trans-gender (2 men and 2 women) fascinates the eye and ear and opens the mind. All four are college students and we are let into the way they live, who their friends are and how the both face and deal with the world in which they live. We look at what makes "male" and what makes "female" ... Read More

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Rating: - Three Quarters of a Good Documentary
I enjoyed the series and all the stories, but thought T.J's story was the weakest of the four. T.J. came across as an angry and ungrateful knucklehead and lost my sympathy when he started protesting against the USA and the president of the country where he was a guest. Would an American transsexual have been treated the same way in Cyprus protesting and speaking out against their leadership? I suspect not. I think the series would have been stronger if it had left T.J. on the cutting room floor. Maybe T.J. ... Read More

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Rating: - A very unique look into transgender youth!
This documenary really gives good insight into what transgender people go through! I love it!

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Rating: - I need an update!!
Before I watched this movie, I had no understanding of the FTM and MTF trans-gendered of the world. But now I'm more open minded. I used to think it was just some taking it too far for life. Unfortunately the trans generation of today is being blown out of proportion, as more and more of the younger kids are claiming "I'm trans-gendered" when in actuality they are just doing what they think they should be doing as that's what society has told them they should do. The same for the actual gay community, being ... Read More

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