[368] MTSU Student Documentary Chronicles Gender Transitions

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2011
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tiffany Gibson, gibson.tiffany0@gmail.com

MTSU STUDENT DOCUMENTARY CHRONICLES GENDER TRANSITIONS
Journalism Major to Show Film on Personal Journeys of Identity, Social Struggle

(MURFREESBORO) – “Transmen,” a documentary by MTSU senior Tiffany Gibson, will be shown at 7 p.m. Friday, March 25, in the State Farm Lecture Hall of MTSU’s Business and Aerospace Building. This event is free and open to the public.
The film explores the lives of three Tennesseans who are attempting the process of gender reassignment, transitioning from females to males, and the social and financial obstacles they face.
According to the film’s website (http://transmen.tumblr.com/), Tennessee is the only state with a ‘law’ that bans gender changes on birth certificates, even after sex-change operations.
Gibson, the filmmaker, is a Cookeville native slated to graduate in May 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. She served as editor of Sidelines, the MTSU student newspaper, in summer 2009. Gibson also interned at the Las Vegas Sun from September 2009 to July 2010 as a member of the online Greenspun Interactive Team, covering breaking news and court cases, as well as shooting photographs and video for the Sun and Las Vegas Weekly.


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