Transgeneration

Given that my lover is a mtf transperson I can’t help but be delighted to learn of the docutmentary Transgeneration:

And Gabbie, a University of Colorado at Boulder student who is readying for surgery to become a woman, is honest, socially awkward, and painfully vulnerable. When she tells one male classmate, matter-of-factly, that she’s being filmed ”for a documentary on transsexual students in college,” the camera lingers on his small, tight smile.

Transgeneration is full of moments like this; it’s frank about hormone treatments and medical issues and sexuality, but also about interpersonal relations, sex, and the things college student really talk about. It might be billed as a primer in transgender issues, but what it beautifully captures is college life, with all of its solipsism and confusion.

A smart look at an alternative campus lifestyle