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My Transsexual Summer
GenreDocumentary-style reality television
Developed by
  • Ana de Moraes
  • Jonas Crabtree
  • Colleen Flynn
Directed byHelen Richards
Starring
  • Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham
  • Fox Fisher
  • Karen Gale
  • Lewis Hancox
  • Sarah Savage
  • Donna Whitbread
  • Maxwell Zachs
Narrated byNina Sosanya
Country of originEngland
Original languageEnglish
No.of series1
No.of episodes4(list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
  • Meredith Chambers
  • Sam Whittaker
Producers
  • Helen Richards
    (series producer)
  • Elaine Stoneham
    (senior producer)
EditorSeeepisode list
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time47 minutes[1]
Production companyTwenty Twenty
Original release
NetworkChannel 4
Release8 November(2011-11-08)–
29 November 2011(2011-11-29)

My Transsexual Summeris a Britishdocumentary-style reality seriesabout seventransgenderpeople in different stages oftransition.For five weekends in the summer of 2011, they stay together in a largeholiday homeinBedfordshire,[2]where they meet and help each other with some of the struggles that transgender people face.[3]Between these weekend retreats, they go back to their lives and real-world challenges.

In the early 2010s,Channel 4resolved to improve the accuracy and depth of their representation of transgender people.My Transsexual Summerwas the first transgender programme they created after making this resolution. Channel 4 broadcast the series in November 2011. It was rebroadcast in the UK onMore4in 2012, and onABC2in Australia in 2013. Also in 2013, two of the show's participants themselves started making documentaryshort filmsand videos about being transgender.

Background

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In April 2010, non-profit organisationTrans Media Watchpublished a study called "How Transgender People Experience the Media", which found that there is "an endemic problem with negative and inaccurate representations [of transgender people in British media stories], and observed that this leads to considerable real-life suffering".[4]

The following September, the Westminster Media Forum[5]hosted a keynote seminar on the representation ofLGBTpeople in Britishmass media.[6]Two speakers in particular addressed the subject of transgender representation: Stuart Cosgrove, Director of Creative Diversity atChannel 4;and Tim Davie, chairperson of theBBCWorking Group on Portrayal and Inclusion of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Audiences.[7][8]They noted a general absence of transgender people in British broadcasting, and reported that "transgender storylines… are frequently lacking in breadth and substance."[7]In a later interview, Cosgrove added that there are "high levels of inaccuracy" in British media reports about transgender people.[7]

In an effort to improve this situation, Trans Media Watch drafted and published amemorandum of understandingfor media companies: signatories of the memorandum agree to "work toward… increasing positive, well-informed representations of transgender people in the media."[9]In March 2011, Channel 4 became the first company to sign the memorandum.[10]"Our editorial independence always come first; but it is part of our remit to reflect the diversity of the UK", said Cosgrove.[10]

After signing, Channel 4 engaged journalist/activistParis Leesof Trans Media Watch to be a production consultant for the show; Lees served as consultant for the duration of production.[11]

Production

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Channel 4 gave the programme theworking titleGirls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls.[12]Mark Raphael, the commissioning editor for documentaries,[13]contracted a Britishproduction companycalledTwenty Twenty Productionsto make the series.[12]Twenty Twenty was at the time a subsidiary ofShed Media.[14]Former commissioning editor for documentaries[15]Meredith Chambers served asexecutive producerfor Channel 4, and Sam Whittaker was executive producer for Twenty Twenty.[12][16]The series producer and director was Helen Richards.[3][17]

Filming began several weeks after the signing of the memorandum, and continued over a period of four months.[18]My Transsexual Summeraired on Channel 4 in November 2011.

Participants

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The participants in the programme are fourtrans womenand threetrans menfrom different parts ofEngland.They range in age from 22 to 52; five of the participants are under 30.

Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham
Drew-Ashlyn, a 22-year-old trans woman fromWakefield,has been living as a woman for more than four years.[19]Her family are supportive,[19]but before the show she had never met another trans person—let alone trans people near her own age.[20]
Fox Fisher
Fox (age 30) is ascreen printingartist fromBrighton.[21][22]Since startingHRTsix months ago, Fox is all-too aware that the hormones are slow to manifest visible changes.[22]
Karen Gale
Karen, fromEssex,worked for many years as a police officer, and later as a lorry driver.[23]She divorced in 1985, and wants to be able to see her daughter again.[24]At age 52, she is about to undergovaginoplasty.[24]
Lewis Hancox
Lewis (age 22) is fromSt Helens, Merseyside.[23]Like Drew, he says he has never knowingly met another trans person before.[11]He decided at age 18 to transition, and he has been living as a man for three years.[25]
Sarah Savage
Sarah (age 29) is fromJersey.[26]She has only recently begun presenting as a woman full-time;[27]during the course of the show, shecomes outto her mother.
Donna Whitbread
Donna is a 25-year-old fromNorwich.[26]She and Drew have both been onhormone replacement therapy(HRT) for two years.[28]
Maxwell Zachs
Max is a 25-year-old trans man fromTottenham.[26]He isReform Jewish,and hopes to become arabbi.[23][29]Max was living in New Zealand when he began preparing to undergomastectomy.[23][30]After seeking help locally, he had the procedure done in Thailand instead.[30][31]

Episodes

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No.in
series		TitleEditorCameraOriginal air date
1"Episode 1"Olivia BaldwinCliff Evans8 November 2011(2011-11-08)[32]
The seven meet in the retreat house, have a photo shoot, share meals, and get to know each other. Donna and Drew give Sarah a makeover. The next night, everyone goes out on the town and celebrates Karen's upcoming surgery.
2"Episode 2"Tom ApplebyCliff Evans / Ian Serfontein15 November 2011(2011-11-15)[33]
Sarah wants to come out to her mum; she pays a visit to Drew's mother to prepare herself. Karen is in hospital recovering from the vaginoplasty operation. When everyone else gathers at the house, they have a video chat with her, and then discuss genital surgery. A trans man visits the house to talk to the group about what it's like to havephalloplasty.At night, the group goes out to a village pub. Lewis, who works at a crafts shop, is overwhelmed by the high cost of gender-confirmation surgeries. Drew, too, must pay for surgeries; but she must find work.
3"Episode 3"Emily Rosen-RawlingsIan Serfontein22 November 2011(2011-11-22)[34]
Sarah has been living as a woman for two months, and her confidence is blossoming. Karen is out of hospital and back at the house. Lewis meets a man who's had chest surgery; Lewis' dad helps to organise a fundraising event. Drew gets a job at a coffeehouse. Fox and Lewis considerpackingoptions.
4"Episode 4"Ian HughesIan Serfontein29 November 2011(2011-11-29)[35]
The group talk about partners and dating. Donna, Karen, and Sarah go to a transgender event at a nightclub in London. Fox has a night out withcisgendermale friends, and is worried aboutpassing.Sarah looks for a place to live in Brighton, but is met with discrimination. Lewis' fundraiser goes well. Donna announces that she's dating a man. Drew, who has been away on holiday, returns for the final weekend of the retreat. The group invite family members to the retreat house; Sarah is pained that hers have severed ties with her.

Response

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Before the first episode aired, journalistPatrick Strudwickasked, "Channel 4, why call your new documentaryMy Transsexual Summer?It sounds like gender tourism, a fun little trip to the other side. "[36]Sarah Dean, an entertainment editor forThe Huffington Post UK,called the title "sensationalist".[37]Although Sarah Lake of Trans Media Watch[7][38]found the title contentious, she defended it by pointing out that transition is a temporary process likecoming of age;even so, she believed the title to be "only slightly better" than the "dire and totally inappropriate"[39]working title,Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls.Her overall assessment was that "although the programme makers undeniably made some compromises to draw in viewers, millions will have enjoyed the company of these seven, shared in their lives and learned a lesson in diversity.… They will now have an entry point to broadening their understanding of the rich and joyful diversity of gender experience, something which has always existed but of which they were previously unaware."[39]

Politician and activist Zoe O'Connell[40]described some of the wording in the narration as "cringeworthy", but felt that "it’s more than just a step in the right direction, it’s a programme that pretty accurately reflected how many trans people carry on with each other in private."[41]

Musician, activist, and writerCN Lesterlisted some ways in which the show perpetuated misconceptions or otherwise fell short, but still saw it as a turning point in the representation of transgender people on television: "It felt like a game changer. The overall feel of it—of hope, of warmth—that felt totally new to me. And hats off to the seven trans people... for putting that across."[42]

When the second episode aired, transgender journalistJuliet Jacquesposted her thoughts to theNew Statesman's politics blog,The Staggers:"At this point... the limited level of improvement in trans representation on TV shown byMy Transsexual Summeris probably the best we can expect. "She felt the major barriers to better representation to be"producers' prejudices about what viewers will accept or understand "and extremely narrow bandwidth for" minority subjects ".[43]

After seeing the first three episodes, Maxwell Zachs called the series "a disappointment". One reason for this, he says, is that although "we see... lovely, endearing transsexuals" portrayed in the show, "what I don’t see is anything that is going to make people think or feel any differently about whatgenderis or how it limits us all in one way or another. "[44]He lamented that their expressions of nuance ingender identityand discussions ofgenderqueernesswere absent from the broadcast edit of the show.[44]

After the final episode aired, Juliet Jacques wrote a follow-up article forTime Out.She concludes: "Perhaps in 30 years' time,My Transsexual Summerwill look as dated as [the 1980 documentary]A Change of Sexdoes now. If so, this will be because it has, for all its faults, taken trans-related television in a more positive direction. "[45]

Participants' lives after the show

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Karen, Drew, Max and Donna

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Less than a month after the final episode ofMy Transsexual Summeraired, Karen Gale delivered part of Channel 4'salternative Christmas messageonChristmas Day,2011.[46]The theme of the broadcast was "Just Be Yourself".[47]In February 2016, Karen's local newspaper, theRomford Recorder,interviewed her about what life was like before shetransitioned.[48]

Drew-Ashlyn Cunningham made speaking appearances at schools, universities, and youth groups.[49][50][51]She became a supporter of Gendered Intelligence[51](anonprofit organisationthat aids trans youth),[52]and a celebritypatronof the 2012 and 2013National Diversity Awards.[53][54]In 2012 she became amake-up artistfor Illamasqua,[51][55]and also wrote forGay Star News.[18][56]In late 2012, she began to train inprofessional wrestling,as this was a childhood dream of hers; by September 2013 she was preparing for her first match. Her wrestling name is Harley Ryder.[57]By April 2013, she was also working part-time forGaydio,an LGBTFM radio stationin the UK.[58]In January 2014, she reported that she was continuing to work with make-up and to wrestle, that she was still making appearances at schools, and that she was writing an autobiography.[59]

Maxwell Zachs is a writer,Judaic studiesscholar, and trans activist. Since 2011 he has written for various publications on subjects pertaining to gender and Judaism.[60][61]In 2012, he started a petition calling on theWHOto delisttranssexualismfrom theInternational Classification of Diseases.[62][63]After a period of charity work, he moved toStockholmto study at Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies in Sweden, on a one-year fellowship.[60]In 2013, while living in Stockholm, he published some of hisplays,as well as a dystopian novella calledThe People's Republic of Nowhere.[60][64]

Donna Whitbread is a stage and festival performer.[28]In 2014, she joined the cast ofcabaretact Ladyboys of London—a company of three trans women plus four male dancers, withchoreographyby Kamilah Beckles.[65][66]They debuted at theHippodrome Casinoin London'sWest Endon 29 December,[67][68]and Donna opened the show with afire breathingact.[65][69]One year later she announced that she had a role inJohn Cameron Mitchell's filmHow to Talk to Girls at Parties(2017).[70]In 2017BBC Newsvideotaped her for Gay Britannia, television programming that marked the 50th anniversary of theSexual Offences Act 1967.[71]She answered questions written bycisgenderpeople about trans women.[72]

Sarah, Lewis and Fox

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After her time with her new friends at the retreat, Sarah Savage was optimistic. "I left the retreat with a different outlook on life, I could feel my confidence growing, slowly."[73]She appeared onchat showsITV BreakfastandLive with Gabbyin 2011,[74]and returned to television in March 2013 as a guest onThe Alan Titchmarsh Show.[75]She took a job in Brighton,[76]and has a blog that she started during the production ofMy Transsexual Summer.[77]In the spring of 2013, she startedHRT.[76]2013 was also the inaugural year of Trans* Pride Brighton, the first transgenderpride festivalin the UK, and she and Fox Fisher served on the organisation committee.[78][79]In 2015 Sarah and Fox published apicture book,Are You a Boy or are You a Girl?,which Sarah wrote and Fox illustrated.[80][81]"Before I started transitioning, I never wrote, I never... did anything creative," said Sarah in a 2013 interview. "For some reason... living in a female role has allowed me to be more creative."[76]

Lewis Hancox' fundraising events attracted donations from TV viewers; among those who gave to the cause wereStephen FryandGraham Norton.[18]Later that year, Lewis began preparing for a more complicated gender-confirmation surgery:metoidioplasty.[82]Lewis moved to London to study Digital Film and Video atLondon South Bank University.[18][83]In 2013, he and Fox Fisher started the My Genderation project, in which they make short documentaries about transgender people andgender variance.[84][85][86]Theirproduction companyis called Lucky Tooth Films.[87]The Independent on Sundayplaced Lewis and Fox on theirPink Listfor 2013 (a list of "101 gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people that make a difference" ), and on theRainbow Listin 2015.[88][89](The Pink List was renamed to Rainbow List in 2014).[90]In 2014,The Guardianincluded Lewis on their "30 under 30" list of "top young people in digital media".[91]

Fox Fisher(aka Raphael Fox) continued to work as afreelancescreen printer and visual artist.[21]In addition to their creative projects with Lewis and Sarah, Fox wrote a few pieces forThe Huffington Post.[92]Like Sarah, they felt a new creative freedom from transitioning: "It's easier to make art now because I feel like I've got a huge chunk of my life out of the way."[21]In 2014, Fox spoke at TEDxBrighton, and was nominated for the alumnus award at theUniversity of Brighton,where they were aMaster of Artsstudent.[93][94]Fox completed a Master's degree in Sequential Design and Illustration in 2015. In July 2017, the university granted them anhonorary doctorate"in recognition of their major contribution to raising the profile, both nationally and internationally, of issues affecting trans people and the promotion of arts in the media".[95][96][97][98]Fox is active in the media as a trans spokesperson, consultant, actor, and filmmaker. They have spoken about trans issues onGood Morning Britain,Inside Out,andThis Morning.[99][100][101]

See also

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