On channel 4 UK this past summer a reality TV doc show called “My Transsexual Summer” aired. How this great show got past us we’ll never know.

The show explores what it’s like to change gender. No cliches just the true grit of what it’s like to be transgendered. A great review on the Guardian.co.uk site was posted, which prompted us to look into it a little further.

Woah! what a great concept for TV. A Big Brotherish type setting with observation style footage. The show follows seven participants ranging in age and gender. In the first episode they play a transgendered drinking game. It’s silly but fun.

Helen Boyd the show consultant and Author of “My Husband Betty” says. It’s also the first major piece of trans-themed output since Channel 4 signed a Memorandum of Understanding with my campaign group, Trans Media Watch. The document suggests treating trans people with accuracy, dignity and respect. Pretty radical, huh? Apparently, I’ve been “a pain in the arse” to work with. Good. I’d be astonished if a team of all-white film-makers, runners, producers and researchers felt they had a God-given right to make TV about ethnic minority issues. Nothing about us without us, as they say.

Wow, so if a program like this can exist in the UK. Why they heck have they not brought it to the US yet? Maybe the producer’s of Big Brother should consider putting a Transgendered person on it. Maybe then the we can all learn a thing or two.

Would you watch a show like this in America?