TransGeneration
TransGeneration
Across America, transgender college students are visible and political, and bravely challenge the status quo. In this eight-part original documentary series, filmmaker Jeremy Simmons follows a year in the lives of four transgender students.
Episode 1
Meet the quartet of students as they each face unique struggles and hard choices in how to present themselves to their college peers.
Episode 2
During a frank and revealing conversation with his mother, Lucas explains the gender split between his body and his mind.
Episode 3
Episode three finds Gabbie so invested in her upcoming reassignment surgery that she has neglected her studies at the University of Colorado.
Episode 4
Lucas undergoes an important rite of passage when he obtains his first hormone prescription. Gabbie spends a few days with her grandparents.
Episode 5
Lucas prepares to defend his thesis and discovers he can't escape campus politics. Raci's instructors are worried about her class attendance.
Episode 6
T.J. visits the parents of his girlfriend. Raci openly attends a campus meeting for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students.
Episode 7
On the eve of her sexual reassignment surgery, Gabbie's parents throw a pre-operative dinner party.
Episode 8
T.J. returns to Cyprus and a difficult conversation with his mother. On the eve of his graduation from Smith College, Lucas and his father meet.