A moving series of 5 documentaries about sex change [male to female] - warning contains difficult content

I knew a girl years ago who had fully transitioned she was a lovely girl and it was nice that she opened up about her story to me 

This was before the whole media hysteria too although th coverage has done a tiny tiny bit of good we mostly got rid of the offensive terms for trans people 

The internwt harms the image of the communiry as it only shows the less than 1% who make their gender their whole personality and then on the flip side to that you have the cis people. Saying oh I'll come. Out as straight... They are again making being cis and straight they're epraobaliyy and it looks bad for the normal rational people from both community 

There is a myth that that the sex transition process is rushed. Yes, a few people have regretted it but the process has become highly politicised and the myth perpetuated. I don’t think there is enough evidence to come to conclusions yet.

I don’t know any people who have gone through sex transition. I used to see a bus driver on a route near my home in the 1970s who had gone through much of the transition process. I believe she died a few years ago, without having had the final surgical procedure.

It's a difficult subject because in a smaller amount of case it gets rushed through which is what can lead to cases of people wanting to detranstion which is a much harder thing to do 

I also think tik tok has a lot to so with people rushing into because at one point it did become a trendy tbibg which is wrong people's lives should not be vie we'd as a fad or trend because it makes there struggles seem like a joke 

Yes Im sure she did. The story of April Ashley is heartbreaking, the cost to her and indeed the trans world at large utterly dreadful.

Check out Jan Morris too. She is deceased now but transitioned bravely from James, a very well known writer and explorer, to Jan, also a well known and excellent writer. Her autobiography about her transition is called Connundrum but very dated now. Ive read some of her geography /travel books and Trieste is my favourite, her descriptive prose redolent of history and past writers, she just makes me want to go there so very much. 

I remember watching this first time round. 

It’s heartbreaking that people suffer for years before they can get help, but she got through it and must have inspired lots of other people in similar situations. 

A very good friend of mine is going through the male to female transition at present and Ive other acquaintances in this community. I think the documentary you refer to is quite old and a lot has changed, some things for the better, some for the worse. Waiting lists have doubled in time, then doubled again. Then prejudice sadly will never go away,  plus it has become a political football but one in which the trans folk themselves are not included in the game. The hatred out there to the trans community is intense and incomprehensible. 

There is a stong statistical link between neurodiversity and autism. Check out the book Uncomfortable Labels by Laura Kate Dale, it is very well written and contemporary in its information, though it doesnt represent everyone’s experiences in the trans community.