Documentaries about sex changes and gender bending are too often cheap shots at ‘penny peep shows’. Crass and seedy, TV companies love things like Sex Change Hospital (More4, Wednesday, 10pm) and rarely provide the sensitivity needed around this incredibly delicate subject.
This series is based in Trinidad, Colorado and follows transgender surgeon Marci Bowers. Marci mentors patients through their sex changes which is no easy task. We see Bree Miller (I won’t patronize you by given her former name) arriving for “gender reassignment surgery” and Charlie Snook, a male to female transsexual (MTF) from Kansas, coming in for three major sex change procedures. Hopefully, this will be an insightful and caring look into the fascinating world of gender. [Mof Gimmers]
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Marci Bowers never mentored some of her patients that I know one bit, even though she performed surgery on them. Furthermore, at the time she was doing some of those surgeries, she already knew she wasn’t having a very good success rate with female to male surgical procedures, but she performed them anyway. She’s a nice person, a good doctor when it comes to MTF’s, but not so great on the FTM’s.