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Growing Up Trans (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
Kids, parents, doctors, and no easy answers. A look inside the decisions families face. 🧭
Who it's for
Seeing several young people and families, rather than one story, shows that experiences and choices differ.
Confused→Understood
Feelings it meets
What it is
A FRONTLINE (PBS) documentary produced by Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor, first broadcast on June 30, 2015. It follows several transgender children and teenagers and their families, many of them patients of the gender program at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago, as they make decisions about puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
Where to find it
YouTube, official FRONTLINE PBS channel (free); also on pbs.org/frontline.
Before you start
Heads up: A child's suicidal thoughts and self-harm.
Age: Ages 14+
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 1
