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Title: Welcome to the Neighborhood
Post by: Natasha on August 27, 2008, 06:06:01 PM
Welcome to the Neighborhood

http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:666404 (http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:666404)
8/27/2008

The town of Trinidad, Colo., population 9,000 and "sex change capital of the world," is so much the stuff of fiction that PJ Raval and Jay Hodges initially had trouble believing the place actually existed. But after a 2004 meeting with Marci – formerly Mark – Bowers, successor to trailblazing genital-reassignment surgeon Stanley Biber and now the field's acknowledged leader, the filmmakers were convinced, and the reality held their fascination for the next four years.