TV: Shining a light on a sensitive issue

Prime Time entered the debate with, rather surprisingly, only one trans person talking about their experience

Sam Blanckensee told his story of being a trans man on Prime Time (RTÉ One)

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Last May, RTÉ’s two-part series My Trans Life saw five young people talking about their experiences of self-identifying as a man or a woman and of their past and new lives. They were allowed to speak for themselves. It was a social documentary about a growing social phenomenon. However, last Tuesday,Prime Time ( RTÉ One) moved the conversation into the sphere of ...