TV Episodes

 

20/20: Transgender at 11: Listening to Jazz Jennings  Barbara Walters catches up with Jazz Jennings, a young girl who says she was born in the wrong body. After being diagnosed with gender dysphoria at age 5, Jazz began living as a transgender girl and has officially transitioned from male to female.

 

Australian Story – About A Girl    Australian Story, aired 15/08/16. Battling prejudice and legal challenges, 16-year-old transgender teenager Georgie Stone takes on the system to make life easier for other transgender kids and their families.

 

Barcraft TV: ‘I’m The Scary Transgender Person The Media Warned You About’  Meet Rebekah Bruesehoff – the 10-year-old transgender girl ‘the media warned you about.’ Mum Jamie Bruesehoff, from New Jersey, and her daughter Rebekah are spreading awareness of transgender people one rally at a time. Since her transition started over two years ago, the young girl has been campaigning, attending marches and speaking at rallies to stand up for transgender rights.

 

Insight: Transgender    Season 2013 Episode 27 was originally aired on 17 September 2013. Insight explores the increase in young people presenting as transgender. Speaking to families, Insight asks how parents can be sure their child is transgender and how they deal with it.

 

Four Corners: Being Me  Through candid interviews with transgender folk like Isabelle Langley, 10, and Paige Elliot Phoenix, Being Me takes us into the world of young people who feel like their true gender is not their biological one. For a generation raised in a world of freely available information, the veil has been lifted on this previously taboo topic. Like Isabelle, inspired by transgender activist and Youtube sensation Jazz Jennings, they are coming out to their families and friends and demanding to be accepted for who they are.