1.Research (Secondary) similar documentaries.

- Girls to Men - Channel 4. - This documentary explains the stories behind

transgender teens in Britain and how they have gone through their transition. It goes
through three different stages of a transition between three different people, the
hormone treatment, the top half surgery and the bottom half surgery. It was shown on
October 13th 2015. There was not money made from this documentary as it was
shown and created by Channel 4 themselves. It had a similar content to what I want
to show in my own documentary however it followed more of an Interactive style
rather than the expository style I want to do due to this documentary being involved
in the day to day life of the boys and even recording the surgeries and injections.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/girls-to-men/on-demand/59852-001

- Real Life: Transgender Children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=R0BmtInLGt8 This documentary explains the points of view parents have of their
children having gender dysphoria and how they have come to support their children
in every way that they can. It goes through the stories of 4 children, all of them being
extremely young and goes through the controversy of them going through hormone
treatment at such a young age. It was released onto youtube on July 28th 2014.
There is no known knowledge of any profit made from this video or who created it. I
find it to be helpful for my documentary as it gives insight to parents opinions and
perspectives of their children and I could use this in my work.

2. Statistics/information.
a) A survey found that 48% of trans people under 26 said they had
attempted suicide, and 30% said they had done so in the past year, while 59%
said they had at least considered doing so. / By comparison, about 6% of all
16- to 24-year-olds say they have attempted suicide, according to the Adult
Psychiatry Morbidity Survey.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/young-transgender-
suicide-attempts-survey
b) psychological and mental health issues that might lead children to believe
they were born the wrong gender.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/11/bbc-film-on-child-transgender-
issues-worries-activist
c) http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Transhealth/Pages/local-gender-identity-
clinics.aspx
i) There is a total of only 8 gender clinics across the entirety of
the uk.
d) http://www.stonewall.org.uk/media/lgbt-facts-and-figures
e) In 2015/16, there were 7,194 sexual orientation hate crimes, 3,629
disability hate crimes and 858 transgender identity hate crimes.As mentioned
above for race or religiously aggravated offences, recording improvements
are likely to be a factor in the increase in offences recorded by the police. This
is also the case for increases in disability, sexual orientation and transgender
identity hate crime. In addition to ONSs statement previously given, anecdotal
evidence provided by some forces have mentioned there have been drives to
improve the reporting and the recording of hate crime, as well as further
 training of staff. The increase across all three strands since 2014/15 (44% for
disability, 29% for sexual orientation and 41% for transgender) may suggest
improved identification of hate crime as a factor, but it is possible that some of
the increase may be due to an increase in actual criminal hate behaviour.
These could be genuine increases in hate crimes or increases in the numbers
of victims coming forward to report a hate crime.For 40 police forces, sexual
orientation hate crime was the second most commonly recorded hate crime.
In the majority (41) of forces transgender identity hate crime was the least
commonly recorded hate crime (Appendix Table 2.01).
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/
559319/hate-crime-1516-hosb1116.pdf

f) Respondents who experienced rejection by family and friends,

discrimination, victimization, or violence had elevated prevalence of suicide
attempts, such as those who experienced the following:
Family chose not to speak/spend time with them: 57%
Discrimination, victimization, or violence at school, at work,
and when accessing health care
Harassed or bullied at school (any level): 50-54%
Experienced discrimination or harassment at work: 50-59%

Doctor or healthcare provider refused to treat them: 60%

Suffered physical or sexual violence: At work: 64-65%
At school (any level): 63-78%
Discrimination, victimization, or violence by law enforcement
Disrespected or harassed by law enforcement officers: 57-61%

Suffered physical or sexual violence: By law enforcement

officers: 60-70%
Experienced homelessness: 69%
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-
Report-Final.pdf

3. Participants and their contact information.

Steve Jones - Police Officer
Mobile 07469412890.
Tracey Connor (Mother)
Mobile - 0792826916
Brandon Connor (Brother)
Dan Blay
Charlotte Holmes - Contact through Lakeisha.
Max Cole

4. a) Questions for the interview.

Steve Jones
How often is there reports of transgender hate crime in the
area?
What is hate crime?
How does the police deal with hate crime?
 Who do you think are the main types of people who would
commit hate crime?
How can people report hate crime?
Have you seen an increase in hate crime in the LGBT
community, if so, why do you think this has happened?
What other types of hate crime is there that the police report?
Do you take LGBT hate crimes as seriously as other hate
crimes such as race and religion?
Has there been in an increase in LGBT hate crime in the local
area?
How do you personally feel about the hate crimes that are
reported that are about the LGBT community?
Tracey Connor. Brandon Connor (Group Interview.)
How do you feel about being a parent for a transgender
child/sibling?
What do you know about transgender people?
How have you adapted to having a transgender family
member?
How do you feel about the rates of transgender suicides that
are reported in the UK? Do you fear that your family member could join in with
the percentages?
What is your opinion for the waiting time for transgender
people to be accepted into a gender clinic?
Do you believe that being transgender is a mental illness?
Do people outside of family talk or insult about your
transgender family member to you?
How do you personally feel about the discrimination and hate
transgender teens face at schools and out in public?
Jayson Garnham.
What age did you start questioning your gender? How did you
know?
How has your family and close friends responded to you being
transgender?
Have you been a victim to hate crimes? Are you comfortable to
explain what happened?
How has the college/school been able to help you?
How do you feel about the rates of LGBT suicides in the uk?
What is your opinion on hate crimes involving transgender
teens?
How do you feel about conversion therapy?
Do you think that being transgender makes you mentally ill or
that you have a psychological problem?
Levi Gough
What age did you start questioning your gender? How did you
know?
Have you been a victim to hate crime before? Are you
comfortable to explain to what happened?
How have your family and close friends responded to you
being transgender?
Do you know about the conversion therapy? How does it make
you feel?
What is your opinion on hate crimes in the uk?
 Do you believe that there should be more gender clinics in the
uk? Why?
How has college/school been able to help you?
Charlotte Holmes
What age did you start questioning your gender? How did you
know?
What was your families and close friends responses to you
coming out as transgender?
Have you been a victim of hate crime? If youre comfortable,
could you explain what happened?
Has being transgender affected your social life? If so, how?
How do you feel about the rate of suicides of transgender
teens in the uk?
Do you think that being transgender is a mental illness?
How do you feel about the conversion therapy?
What is your opinion on the waiting list for gender clinics in the
uk?
Max Cole
What age did you start questioning your gender? How did you
know?
What makes you different from other typical transgender
males?
Have been a victim to hate crime before? If comfortable, could
you explain what happened?
Have you come out to your family? If so, what was their
reaction? Were they supportive?
How do you feel about the increase of transgender teens in the
uk in the past year?
Do you believe that being transgender is a mental illness?

4. b) Interview Techniques.
- Research what you are going to film - Get basic knowledge about your
interviewee.
- Keep the questions simple. - You are trying to teach someone through your
documentary, make sure the questions fit the person.
- Open-ended Questions are preferred rather than closed-ended questions.
- Leading questions are undesirable.
- Who, what when, where, why, how,
- Follow up questions - ask questions following the topic of the interviewee
- Challenge what they say, if you dont understand what they
said, politely ask them to explain it. (If you dont understand it, neither will the
audience.)
- Always listen to what they are saying.
- - incase they say something offensive or if they dont answer a
question correctly so that you can ask them to answer the question again.
- Get the interviewee to say their name and their profession as well as get them
to spell their name if they have a different spelling.
- Is there anything you would like to add? always ask this at the end of the
interview so that the interviewee can add some additional information on the topic.
- Always thank them for their time and co-operation at the end.
- Dress appropriately.
- Dont have an attitude.
- Stay neutral. (Dont make the interview biased towards one opinion.)
- Minimise your own voice.
- Its not about you. (KEEP YOUR OPINION OUT OF IT.)
- If you miss a question, try to return to the subject and ask it.
- Avoid filming twice in order to keep the continuity, try to get the
whole interview perfectly done in one turn.