In the documentary “Transgender Kids” Louis Theroux travels to San Francisco to meet with leading medical professionals helping children who believe they were born in the wrong body.
The Adolescent Gender Center at UCSF Hospital Louis specializes in Gender dysphoria (GD),or gender identity disorder (GID),which is a medical terms for the distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth. In the documentary Louis discovers that children as young as three are showing signs of rejecting their gender which is leading their parents to make difficult decisions.
Unlike many Louis Therouxs’ past documentaries which tended to be light-hearted, as one watches Transgender Kids it becomes obvious how many people this effects.