Lucy Teen Transsexual (The Conclusion)

A series here starting on Sunday (Tonight) and it has more about Lucy:- Teen Transsexual, this particular programme is due to be aired near the end of September

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BBC3 has commissioned eight documentaries for its third Body Image season, including the story of an 18-year-old who travels to Thailand to undergo a sex-change. BBC3 will follow up last season's Lucy: Teen Transsexual with Lucy: Teen Transsexual in Thailand , which continues the story of 18-year-old Lucy Parker (formerly Richard) as she travels to Thailand to undergo irreversible surgery to become a woman.

Lucy has already undergone two years of hormone treatment, psychological analysis and surgery, making her one of Britain's youngest transsexuals. The cameras will follow her throughout her surgery in Thailand and painful recovery. It is one of three documentaries in the season made by UK production company Endemol's Brighter Pictures.

Brighter Pictures has also made Danny: My Secret Female Body (working title), which follows 22-year-old Katie who has lived as Danny for the past four years. The documentary follows her as she rids herself of her breasts to become a man. In the UK, there are around 15,000 transsexuals who believe they are trapped in the wrong body. Around a third of them have surgery to change their bodies to be the opposite sex.

The average age for this surgery is thought to be 29, but an exceptional few, such as Lucy and Katie, choose to modify their bodies at a very young age. Also in the line-up is BBC's in-house production I'm a Boy Anorexic which follows three boys as they recover from eating disorders at clinic Rhodes Farm and shows what happens as they return to the outside world after treatment finishes. The BBC has commissioned eight hour-long documentaries for the Body Image season, which begins on the 2nd September on BBC3. Lucy: Teen Transsexual in Thailand is scheduled to be shown at the end of September