Since 2014 more than 1000 Danish children and youngsters have been referred by their doctors to hospital clinics with the assumption that they might be transgender. During the past six years, we’ve gained unique access to the life of two transgender girls. Frederik and Asbjørn are born as boys, but they identify as girls and prefer to be called Frederikke and Asta. The documentary series aims to explore the dilemmas and challenges of being transgender and how the parents and siblings deal with the gender change of their loved ones. We gain an authentic insight into the physical transformation, as we witness Frederikke change from being a young man into becoming a woman. We also see the many uncertainties and prejudices that Asta and her family meet, as they decide to support Asta’s desire to be dressed and addressed as a girl at a young age. By producing the programme over such a long time, we believe we have been able to show an unpolished reality of all the ups and downs of being and having a transgender child. The series led to much debate on social media. In summer 2022 the Danish government proposed a new bill to remove the age limit for when a person can apply for legal change of gender in the public registers.
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