TransGeneration | 
 enlarge | Actors: Katherine A. Baker, Lucas Cheadle, Andrea Gabrielle Gibson, Raci Ignacio, Bryce Abelson
Studio: New Video Group
Category: DVD
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 18965
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 272 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: NVG-9773
UPC: 767685977330
EAN: 0767685977330
ASIN: B000CRR3I8
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 2005
Release Date: March 28, 2006
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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:nbsp;DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating:nbsp;NR UPC:nbsp;767685977330 Manufacturer No:nbsp;NVG-9773
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Told with compassion and insight, the fascinating eight-episode documentary iTransGeneration/i 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.p 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.p 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 iTransGeneration/i 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. i--Jae-Ha Kim/i
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 An impressive piece of work - informative and entertaining! September 27, 2008
Baron Woodward (South Texas)
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!
Thinking Trans Gender September 21, 2008
Amos Lassen (Little Rock, Arkansas)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
"Trans Generation" br / br /Thinking Trans Gender br / br /Amos Lassen br / br /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" and then at everything in between the two. We know that sexuality is different from gender and still the two seem to be intertwined. When a man identifies himself as gay, bisexual or straight, it has nothing to do with whether he is transsexual or wants to undergo gender reassignment surgery and live in a body that suits him better. Gender Identity Disorder is something that is very real and those that transiting from one sex to another find that they live their lives much more easily. br / We meet Raci, a Filipino girl who attends Cal Tech and is not ready yet to share her life with anyone. Her family supports her completely and she has been dressing as a female since she was 9 years old. She maintains a 3.5 GPA and is on a scholarship. Raci is taking female hormones. br / TJ is from Cyprus but is going to school in Michigan. When his scholarship ends he is obliged to return to Cyprus for two years and his family does not support him. He thinks his other could get him to return to being Tamar as he was named when born. br / Lucas is a male student at an all female college. His mother has tried to accept him and we see how hard it is on a parent to understand and accept that the child they once had is a different gender than the one born into even though they are essentially the same person inside. br / Gaby is a female who goes to school in Colorado. She is just learning how to be sociable. She is going to have a sex change operation and her parents support her. Sexually she classifies herself as either bisexual or lesbian. br / These four are typical teenagers who have the same problems as their peers but they have that extra gender situation. br / The film gives an overall view of the trans community and shows that trans gender people are everywhere. The price that these people pay is high and they manage to deal with the issues. Here is a film that will open your eyes and really make you think. br /
 Three Quarters of a Good Documentary March 25, 2008
Doug (Minneapolis)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. will grow up someday and realize that good grades and a college degree are nice, but your intelligence doesn't mean a thing if you don't have common sense and behave like a knucklehead.
A very unique look into transgender youth! January 12, 2008
Sean M. Mulry
This documenary really gives good insight into what transgender people go through! I love it!
I need an update!! October 19, 2007
Da Honest Truth (Spartanburg, SC)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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 gay is in right now, so is being trans-gendered. A lot of the young "femmes" feel that they can date a "FTM" and still be considered str8, where the actuality is that they are still sleeping with a woman as the FTM they are into aren't really gay, but playing a role. br / br /But I would love to get an update at least every 6 months to a year to see how their lives are moving along. Either that or I'd love to met the participants in the documentary.
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