Transsexual Stories

Transsexual Stories

2015 | 59 minutes |

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Rated 18+

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SEXUAL CONTENT, SMOKING, ALCOHOL, FOUL LANGUAGE

Director: Benjie Bateman

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From an ex-soldier turned bus driver to 77-year-old antiques dealer, meet these extraordinary transwomen. Peek into the lives of five transwomen, each at various stages of transition of hormone therapy to sex-change procedures & hear about the challenges they faced coming out in the public eye. Will this new emerging woman of Scotland be accepted in a distrustful society?

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