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Meet the Prom Queen Who Grew Up Trans But is Now "Just a Girl"
“When I was younger, I didn’t really know what transgender was,” says Lia Hodson. Now, the former high school prom queen is among a first wave of children and young adults that is reshaping the transgender landscape.
June 30, 2015
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Growing Up Trans
An intimate and eye-opening journey inside the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their families.
June 30, 2015
"It Was Kind of Like a Double Life": Meet Ariel, Who Is Growing Up Trans
For 13-year-old Ariel, the transition from boy to girl hasn't always been easy, but family support has helped.
June 29, 2015
Dental Chain Violated New York Law, Settlement Says
Aspen Dental, one of the nation’s largest dental management chains, is being called on to pay $450,000 for allegedly pressuring dentists to increase revenue by using high-pressure sales techniques on its low-income patients.
June 22, 2015
Being Mortal
June 8, 2015
54m
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The Trouble with Chicken
FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in our poultry, and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat.
May 12, 2015
54m
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Outbreak
The vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late.
May 5, 2015
Podcast: The Long Tail, the Lottery and "Being Mortal"
Go inside the making of "Being Mortal" with FRONTLINE filmmaker Tom Jennings and author and surgeon Dr. Atul Gawande.
March 2, 2015
Love and Cancer at 27
Allen Chou was just 27 when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. His girlfriend, Linda Sim, was 25. This is what they did when his prognosis took a bad turn.
February 20, 2015
A Very Short History of Death
Is there any such thing as a good death? It's a question that got Christopher Woolf, resident "history guy" at Public Radio International’s "The World" thinking.
February 17, 2015
"It's Very Hard to Come to the Realization That You're Dying"
Clyde Earle, who had been battling advanced cancer for a year, came to the ER complaining of pain. He and his wife Audrey thought he had many more months to live.
February 13, 2015