excerpt screened at the 31st Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco on 14 June. The television premiere in the US was on WE tv (a specialty channel marketed to women) where it aired from October to November 2008. Another speciality channel, Discovery Health, rebroadcast the series in the US from February to March 2009, and again in 2011 when it relaunched as Discovery Fit & Health. Reception "While it's great that such documentaries… are making it easier to understand people who might have led completely tormented secret lives in previous generations," wrote Andrea Mullaney of The Scotsman, "focusing purely on personal stories doesn't really open up the issues behind this extraordinary development in modern times.… while their stories evoked sympathy, I wonder why no one ever asks why our gender roles have become so codified that their only option was such drastic surgery." David Hinckley of the New York Daily News expected that the show would present some viewers with "high hurdles": transgender themes and graphic footage of surgery. "On the other hand", he adds, "the human part of the story—the things that patients and the people in their lives go through—provides familiar dramas about conflict, doubt and reconciliation. Often touching, those stories can resonate with everyone." After the series aired in the US in 2008, it was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. The award went to Parvez Sharma's A Jihad for Love, a feature-length documentary about LGBT Muslims living in different countries. See also Transitioning (transgender) Sex reassignment surgery (female-to-male) Sex reassignment surgery (male-to-female) Hormone replacement therapy (female-to-male) Hormone replacement therapy (male-to-female) References Further reading External links Sex Change Hospital at Channel 4 Sex Change Hospital at WE tv Sex Change Hospital at World of Wonder Sex Change Hospital at Frameline 2007 British television series debuts 2007 British television series endings 2000s LGBT-related reality television series 2000s American reality television series English-language television shows Transgender-related television shows American LGBT-related reality television series