Growing Up Trans: Frontline Directed By Martin Smith

The documentary that I chose to do an analysis on is “Growing Up Trans”, a film that is showed on a T.V. a series called Frontline directed, by Martin Smith. In this documentary film it goes through the life of young kids that are planning to change there identity to a different gender. While the kids plan on taking hormone blockers they are being educated by doctors at Children's Hospital in Chicago, Illinois on how the hormone blockers are processed. Some of the parents are nervous because they don’t know if there will be long term side effects that may affect their child’s health. Hormone blockers are not well researched therefore they can be dangerous. While the parent’s kids are going to this process some of them are very supportive
In the documentary John, who identifies himself as a boy has a hard time having a difficult relationship with his father. One of the reasons why John’s father did not want to accept his situation is because of his religion views. He believes that when someone is born they should live as their natal gender. The other reason why John’s father did not accept his daughter decision to change her gender is because he said that he felt like he is losing his daughter and it felt as if his daughter was morphing into another
They provided stories and opinions from the children. All of the transgender kids in the documentary were dealing with a problem or depression. The kids describe what they had to go through school and how their parents views on the situation. In the documentary the doctor said “we don't have all of the answers, there haven't been much research in this area. Hopefully theres going to be more research and some of those unanswered questions, hopefully this will begin to be answered and we could give families legitimate options.” This will be a great opportunity for the kids and parents to save stress and bring more relief in future decision makings. If they researched more in the area I believed that they could find a way to avoid the side affects in the long