I'm looking for a documentary to help my friends and family understand what I'm going through. Does anyone have any suggestions? Trans man or bigender documentaries would be better. Please and many thank yous.

I can't help with the bigender one but "Boy I Am" is good and it's on Youtube. 

Thanks. I do like that one, but I am worried that my family will take out of it the "wanting to be a guy because "she" doesn't want to be a woman" and the questions on if it's a trend or a choice instead of paying attention to what's actually being said.

I don't think Boy I Am would be a good one to show them anyways. Too many radical feminists in it talking anti-transguy stuff, and might encourage whatever judgmental thoughts your family already has about trans people.

TransGeneration is more of one talking from the point of view of trans people (most of them university students, if I remember), so perhaps it could be helpful? Its also available on youtube.

There's also a British TV documentary series called My Transsexual Summer that might help as well. I think it has like 4 or 5 episodes and there's at least one person on there who talks briefly about stuff that might relate to your bigender identity. You can download those off Pirate Bay.

From a different perspective, I thought the movie Facing Mirrors (the English title) was really awesome. It's an Iranian movie about a transguy who's forced to try to escape the country in order to transition while his family are trying to force him into traditional marriage as a woman. It's really intense and I think it highlights just how serious this is to trans people, instead of making it come off as a "trend" or something like in Boy I Am. I'm not really sure where you can find it, though, since I only was able to see it at a Film Festival

And speaking of shorts, if you can find any of the short films featured in the TransPlanetarium series (last year's was especially great), those may be helpful.

Four Corners - The Gender Puzzle. Has both M2F, F2M and intersex people. Features academics, lawyers and personal stories. It's very well produced and is a mainstream Australian current affairs program. Very balanced.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2005/s1419343.htm

Thanks. I'll take a look at those.

I have to say that I really dislike both Boy I Am and Transgeneration. Okay, I'll be honest, I really loathed both of them and found them a trial to get through. I'm glad I watched the first on YouTube (so I didn't waste money on it), and I guess the second was worth buying--it was bargain priced for about as much as it would have cost to rent it one disc at a time, and I couldn't find a copy in town. But now I want to get rid of it.

A friend of mine recommends You Don't Know Dick, but I've never seen it and don't know if you can get it through, say, Netflix. It's about FTMs--several different guys. I don't feel inspired to see such documentaries anymore, or I would try to track it down--I do know that I've never seen it on Amazon. Last time I talked to this friend, I think he said it had never been released on VHS or DVD. Also, it's been around for quite some time, so it might be dated.

I think somebody here recommended Transparent, but that's about FTMs who have kids--I think some of them even after transition. I don't think that's what you want, is it?

I did not like "Boy I am" (actually I liked it minus the radical feminist types-- and not sure how well parents would understand this either). I liked "Call Me Malcolm". It does show a trans pastor and ordination but it doesn't hard pedal the religious stuff. He interviews friends, other trans people, etc.

This youtube channel has all sorts of gender stuff on it (Boy I Am, Call me Malcolm, Sex Lies and Gender (National Geographic I think), BBC ?? "The Boy was born a girl" (despite it's title this is good stuff-- just day in the life stuff).

http://www.youtube.com/user/AllSortsOfStuff101/videos?sort=dd&view=0&page=1
--Jay Jay

hi edge i was givin a dvd by my support group called a funny kind of guy, i'd be happy to send it to you  just pm me if you are interested

also national geographics did a special on trans gender people, i'll see if i can find the link

I just found a few youtube videos hosted by the user CadenceSparkle, which are TV recordings of the show 20/20 titled
"My Secret Self" - and
"Boys will be girls" - (try to ignore the intro..)

There are no doubt better ones around but I found these to be good simply because they are very informative and mostly unbiased compared to other media. They are also somewhat emotionally intense which, if you're showing someone for the sake of getting them to understand you, will help get the message across.

Quote from: Justin 21 on August 11, 2012, 02:30:14 AM
hi edge i was givin a dvd by my support group called a funny kind of guy, i'd be happy to send it to you  just pm me if you are interested

also national geographics did a special on trans gender people, i'll see if i can find the link

Yeah I think Sex, Lies and Gender is by them. (They may have others as well.) I believe the series "Taboo" may have done some. I know they are doing another one now (might be out in October) but it includes someone I am following on youtube.

--Jay Jay

Omg thank you! I found Sex, Lies, And Gender on youtube. I've only seen the first 2:30 minutes of it so far, so I might be getting my hopes up prematurely, but I just wanted to say thank you!

http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TSsuccesses/TransMen.html

Quote from: Edge on August 11, 2012, 05:27:40 PM
Omg thank you! I found Sex, Lies, And Gender on youtube. I've only seen the first 2:30 minutes of it so far, so I might be getting my hopes up prematurely, but I just wanted to say thank you!

I really like it! I don't think it will disappoint anybody. Jam packed with info.

--Jay Jay

Nevermind.  Why is it that whenever documentaries refer to "third gender," "gender variant," and "beyond the binary" all they talk about are intersex people and mtfs?

Quote from: Edge on August 11, 2012, 06:21:54 PM
Nevermind.  Why is it that whenever documentaries refer to "third gender," "gender variant," and "beyond the binary" all they talk about are intersex people and mtfs?

Patience, the media is getting better at this. 

  1) Intersex births are higher than those that will show transgender tendencies.  These people are coming out because they are assigned their birth sex by a committee of doctors and being lied to about it and this is raising some new ethics issues. 

  2) It is theorized that the MtF and FtM ratio is only slightly higher for the MtFs, but those who act out in those 'opposite' gender roles, MtFs vastly outnumber the FtMs in this regard.  It is much more acceptable in our time for females to dress in male clothing such as for construction work.  A tomboy is much more acceptable than a effeminate male.  Because of this, most FtMs would rather act out as much as allowed in a "male" role, than to go through the transition process level that you are in. 

  Joelene

Yeah, I'm not a tomboy. I'm an effeminate, masculine male.
I really like The Boy Who Was Born a Girl because it's simple.

I remember transgeneration. My mom and I watched it.when.it came out