Television

Television Links

• MediaFocus: Transgender Visibility A project run by GLAAD which focuses on and advocates for fair, accurate and inclusive representations of transgender and intersex people in the media.
  
• PlanetOut Television Archive A series of independently produced television programs which can be viewed online using realvideo or quicktime. Includes several transgendered programs, including a series following the different roads taken by two transitional FTMs; Toronto's Tranny B&B: Behind the Glamour; and a Hilary Swank interview, among others.
  
• Channel-T transsexual documentaries A non-profit series of grassroots desktop video documentaries in QuickTime streaming video, whose purpose is to promote better public understanding of people who have changed their genders.
  
• Crossdressing in the Drew Carey Show In-depth coverage of an episode in which Mimi becomes involved with Drew's cross-dressing brother Steve.
  
• Free Speech Internet Television Free Speech Internet Television is the first audio/video hub on the web created and defined by the people who use it. Extremely queer-friendly, including an online video of Leslie Feinberg reading from Stone Butch Blues, and a DykeTV episode about a case of discrimination in Argentina against a transgendered mother.
  
• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation GLAAD has never let its name stop it; it has a long history of bi and trans inclusion, and has been reporting media transphobia in its weekly "GLAADAlerts" for years.
  
• Chicago Hope Explores Gender Identity Review of an episode of Chicago Hope in which a doctor is surprised to discover that his female teenage patient was actually born a boy.
  
• Discovery Channel Discovers Intersex A review of a Discovery Channel program about intersexed people, an hour-long look at the hormonal and genetic causes of ambiguous or combined genitalia, the procedures used to "correct" the conditions and the lives of those affected as they grow up and learn what happened to them as babies, and many interviews.
  
• 20/20 and Brandon Teena Review of 20/20's episode on the murdered transman, including a clip of Transexual Menace, interesting and original interviews with Brandon Teena's mother, JoAnn Brandon, and a number of his friends, spliced together with commentary, news footage and interviews from the documentary The Brandon Teena Story.
  
• "American Justice" Shows None A GLAAD review of American Justice's "The Life and Death of Teena Brandon" episode.
  
• PBS to Air Groundbreaking Documentary "You Don't Know Dick" A review of the cutting-edge FTM documentary, as broadcast on PBS.