Arie Boomsma follows six young people during their transformation from man to female or the other way around. Hij is een Zij follows those younger ones for more than a year to give viewers a better insight from what they experience.
Mick (19) and Freddie (17) are working on a camping during their summer holidays. To avoid difficult situations, they decide to tell their colleagues that they are transgender.
Sophie (30) hockeys with the ladies team for a couple of years. She had to tell them that she used to play with the guys team before. Mick's breast has currently been removed, but Freddie is not there yet. The final transition from Female to male for Arjon is to create a penis. A daring operation, where he had to lose a lot of weight. Bo is currently doing a fashion studies. She decides to tell her new class that she's a transgender and currenly being in progress to become a lady. Many classmates never heard about it or are not familiar with.
Martin (25) is still in his beginning stage of transition from female to male. He just took over a new name for himself and lives like a man for just a few months. Sophie has a relationship with Tamar. For them it is just an ordinary lesbian relationship, but it is complicated for outsiders. Mick is in hospital waiting for his last operation to get his uterus removed. Once removed, he is according to law a real man. Arie Boomsma visits Mick a couple of weeks later together with Freddie. Freddie, who still needs to do all of his operations. Arjon is packing his baggage. Finally it is there, he will be receiving his new penis. The moment he has been waiting for!
The parents of Bo did have some difficulties when they found out that Bo felt like she was born in a wrong body. Though they felt that he used to be different compared to other boys. Martin works in home care, a branch where lots of females are working in. Arie Boomsma is curious to know what Martin's colleagues are thinking about his coming out. Arie meets Sabrina and Michiel too, two good friends of Sophie. They know her for years and stood by with her during her transformation from silent guy to selfconfident lady. Freddie starts to study. A new study, so nobody knows about his past. One of the many coming outs for Freddie in his life as of yet.
The moment of Arjon is there he was so eagerly waiting for, he got a penis! Martin goes on holiday before he is allowed to enter the medical process. During his packing, he has to face one problem. Will he be swimming in his bikini or will it be a tight shirt to hide his breast.... Sophie visits her old elementary school with her brother. Long ago Sophie was walking here as a little shy boy.... Presenter Arie Boomsma visits Freddie's family. Freddie is just a night away from his operation to remove his boobs, Arie wants to know what kind of impact this will be for his family? Bo is finally 18 years old and is eager to hear whether he is allowed to consume female hormones from his doctor.
Freddie completed her boobs removal operation and is finally able to swim with a half naked body. Freddie goes on holiday together with his good friend Mick.Martin has been greenlighted to start using male hormones and Arjon is looking to his old pictures together with his mother and stephfather when he used to be a girl, a confrontation with a difficult time of his life.
Arie Boomsma followed six young transgenders in their life over a period of one and a half year. He organized a reunion for all six people to meet with each other to look back and discuss their time about this period of time and to talk about their future.Mick and Freddie both performed their last operations and are fully completed in their transitions. Bo has been granted permission after a long period of waiting to start using female hormones and Martin is using male hormones. Will he have a mustache already?
Program about transsexuals. Transsexuals are not happy with the body, in which they were born.
Transsexuals are people that are unhappy with the body in which they were born. They often feel different than their appearances suggests. After their coming-out, it will be time for their transformation.
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