Sex Change Hospital

Sex Change Hospital
GenreDocumentary-style reality television[1]
Directed byChris McKim[2]
StarringMarci Bowers
Theme music composerDavid Benjamin Stein
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
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Production
Executive producers
  • Fenton Bailey
  • Randy Barbato
  • Jeremy Simmons[2]
ProducerMarci Bowers (consulting producer)
Cinematography
  • Damon Hennessey
  • Kenneth Wilson
Editors
  • Nathan Allen
  • Jonathon Anderson
  • Clay Foster
  • Chris Lovett
  • Michael McCauley
Camera setupMulti-camera
Production companyWorld of Wonder[3]
Original release
NetworkMore4
Release23 May (2007-05-23) –
27 June 2007 (2007-06-27)[4]
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Sex Change Hospital is an American documentary-style reality television series[1] about 12 transgender people who have sex reassignment surgery at the Mt. San Rafael Hospital in Trinidad, Colorado,[5] under the care of OB/GYN Marci Bowers.[6][7] The patients talk about their lives and viewers follow them through their consultations with Bowers, the surgical procedures, and their post-surgical experience.

Sex Change Hospital was produced by World of Wonder, and premiered in the United Kingdom on More4 in May 2007. In June, a 47-minute excerpt screened at the 31st Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco. After the series aired on US specialty channel WE tv in 2008, it was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. Discovery Health rebroadcast the series in the US in 2009, and again in 2011 when it relaunched as Discovery Fit & Health.

Bowers was the subject of the 2008 documentary Trinidad;[8] she and her practice also feature in the final episode of TransGeneration, a documentary-style reality series that aired in 2005.

  1. ^ a b Hinckley, David (13 October 2008). "A Surgeon Who Operates Across the Gender Gap in Sex Change Hospital". New York Daily News. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Sex Change Hospital [23/08/2007]". BFI Film & TV Database. British Film Institute. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Update on 'Female or She-male' sketch and RuPaul's Drag Race". GLAAD.org. GLAAD. 14 April 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Sex Change Hospital: Image Gallery". Channel 4. 2007. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
  5. ^ DiNunno, Gina (11 November 2008). "Transgender Doctor Talks Sex Change Hospital". TV Guide. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  6. ^ "An Intimate Portrait of a Transgender Doctor's Life". On Top. On Top Media. 12 February 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  7. ^ Roberts, Michael (14 October 2008). "Trinidad Gets Its Closeup Tonight in Sex Change Hospital". Westword. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
  8. ^ "LAFF '08 Interview: Trinidad Co-directors Jay Hodges and PJ Raval". IndieWire. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2017.