TJ, Raci, Gabbie and Lucas-four college students with bigger life dilemmas than most-all face unexpected drama and upheaval in the documentary series Transgeneration, which premieres Sept. 20 on the Sundance channel. The first show will last one hour and be followed by six weekly half-hour shows.Sponsored by Triskelion, a sneak preview of Transgeneration was shown Sunday evening in the Shapiro Theater. For those in attendance, the 90-minute screening offered a glimpse at feeling trapped in the wrong gender role for most of your life, and finally having a chance to attempt to rectify the situation through a sex-change process and operation.

The clips featured tracked the four students, all from different universities, through an entire year. The cameras followed them everywhere, leading to some very revealing moments emblematic of how such an emotional procedure affects social and academic lives, job prospects and family relationships.

In the screening, parents' reactions to their children's choices ranged from acceptance to complete denial and every feeling in between, and the students' approaches to speaking with their loved ones elicited sympathy from the audience. Viewers watched as the students wrote letters, made phone calls, had conversations and broached what were some very difficult topics for the families.

Each student was in a different stage of the sex-change process: Lucas had started taking testosterone, TJ had met other transsexuals and started a fraternity, Gabbie was excitedly waiting for the surgery to change her sex organ, and Raci was coming to terms with her new body and the discovery of who she always wanted to be.

The audience followed the students as they adjusted to their new bodies and altered their understandings of themselves.

The selections shown were all easily-relatable tidbits. The audience witnessed the film's subjects hanging out with friends, going to class, writing papers and clubbing. As such, viewers did not focus on the actual sex-change process, but instead on the emotional coming-of-age that was the result.