There's a Chicago Hope ep about a boy raised as a girl, based on a true story about a boy from Winnipeg, Canada.
"Boys Will Be Girls"
First broadcast on CBS, Feb. 3, 2000
John Heath directed, script by Linda McGibney.
Dr. Jack McNeil (Mark Harmon) is surprised to discover that his teenage "female" patient had been born a boy. At birth, a doctor performing a routine circumcision made an error [cutting off the boy's penis] and advised the parents to let the child live life as a girl. Dr. McNeil, Dr. Jeremy Hanlon (Lauren Holly) and Stuart Brickman (Alan Rosenberg) team up and go to court to help the boy win his right to restorative surgery.
I saw a documentary about the real little boy that that episode was based on. The young man ended up committing suicide.
The writers from Chicago Hope are full of BS, they didn't even know the effects of hormones on the body.
On of the side characters they used was a post-operation transsexual. Then they used a completely impossible medical situation to justify having said character commit suicide.
First of all, female hormone with not reverse facial hair, electrolysis on the facial is needed to do this. After electrolysis, facial hair is permanently gone.
Second, the character had already had sex-change, which among other things is the removal of the testes, which mean no more production of testosterone (except for the very small amount produced in the adrenalin glands) in the body.
Now in the show, what let to the person's suicide was three impossible things happening.
1. The hormones she was taking stopped working, now hormones may not work for people at the beginning, but if they work to start with, they will continue working.
2. Because of number 1, her body started producing testosterone, which is impossible because she had already had her testes removed.
3. Because of 1 and 2, she started having facial hair develope. Which is impossible because female hormones have no effect on facial hair. Only electrolysis does. And after electrolysis, facial hair is permanently gone.
It not that Chicago Hope had someone commit suicide that bothered me, it is the total ignorance of medical knowledge in how they did it that pisses me off.