My Transsexual Summer

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)
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Production
Executive producers
  • Meredith Chambers
  • Sam Whittaker
Producers
  • Helen Richards
    (series producer)
  • Elaine Stoneham
    (senior producer)
EditorSee episode 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)
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My Transsexual Summer is a British documentary-style reality series about seven transgender people in different stages of transition. For five weekends in the summer of 2011, they stay together in a large holiday home in Bedfordshire,[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 4 resolved to improve the accuracy and depth of their representation of transgender people. My Transsexual Summer was the first transgender programme they created after making this resolution. Channel 4 broadcast the series in November 2011. It was rebroadcast in the UK on More4 in 2012, and on ABC2 in Australia in 2013. Also in 2013, two of the show's participants themselves started making documentary short films and videos about being transgender.

  1. ^ "My Transsexual Summer". ABC2. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
  2. ^ Pilgrim, Michael (8 November 2011). "Imagine... Simon & Garfunkel: The Harmony Game, BBC One, My Transsexual Summer, Channel 4, review". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. Retrieved 23 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Programme Information: My Transsexual Summer " (Press release). London: Channel 4. 20 October 2011. Retrieved 22 March 2016 – via 4 Press.