This post highlighted a link to a BBC programme about the lives of three transvestites and their wives/partners.
When you click the link and have the opportunity to view the programme, you also have the opportunity to view other videos.
What a contrast they are to the BBC video. Small wonder then why Joe Public has this perception about the transgender community. The BBC are a well respected organisation but against the mass of "other material" out there, theirs is a lost voice.