http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00w09yg/Transsexual_Te...
This will, of course, be limited in some foreign parts, but while it wasn't too bad I could have slapped th epresenter several times. Which is what the subject said...
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yep
Not available outside of the uk on this link. From another link though the kid has a really bad attitude.
Dunno
It just seemed to me that she wasn't any more vapid than most girls her age who are image-centric.
Janet
Mistress of the Guild of Evil [Strawberry] Blonde Proofreaders
To be or not to be... ask Schrodinger's cat.
Wish that the BBC
Teen beauty queen video could be seen over here.
May Your Light Forever Shine
Again we see the conflict
Society says what is normal; thugs, who are basically cowards, use any excuse to beat up those who are perceived as weaker or different.
TS folk, by and large, just want to get on with their lives.
No wonder that Jackie had a bad attitude.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
S.
Video on YouTube
Is this the same show?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkWv9cbda4c
Re: Video on YouTube
Yes.
Dave.
Thank you for the link Pippa!
Yes, that does seem to be her. The proxy thing is a pain, probably because I don't
know how to do that well, but the Youtube video was fine
Now, more importantly, N.B: Never search for "Transsexual Teen, Beauty Queen"
when the search filter is set to none!
Holy cow. Glad no one else was int he room!
Sarah Lynn
Doubt I'll watch it
If she wasn't transsexual there'd probably be no story, so I'm not sure if that makes it educational or a freak show.
Angharad
Freak show
The thing that caught my attention was simple. She is so far the youngest subject in the UK for GCS, and the interviewer was largely an idiot. However...there was one scene, where she describes a beating by two men.
"They were two men in their forties. Iwas 14. What were they thinking?"
I was largely adrift with the 'pageant' stuff. It was more interesting to hear her talk about her time in school.
I Thought She Was Pretty Normal
Like Ang, I don't think there would have been a story had she not been transsexual. She came across to me as a typical image-obsessed teen girl. I admired her attitude to the prejudice and hatred to which she had been subjected during her early teens...a pretty tough cookie, as her dad said. I particularly liked her mum, too. She's very lucky to have a mother like that.
What did jar was the standard of the production itself. I expected much better from the BBC, notwithstanding their recent problems,
Joanne
exactly
I tried to pick out the deeper parts of the narrative, such as the school problems and beatings, as well as the phenomenal support her mother gives her, but I was left cold by the obsession with image and the frankly amateur voice over. Neither Jackie nor I have ever changed our sodding gender, FFS.
Director's article
May be worth a look at what the director said about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dan-murdoch/transsexual-teen...
Dear Mr Murdoch
"Became the world's youngest transsexual"
It doesn't start when you get surgery.