How Katie Couric Turned a TV Blunder Into a ‘Groundbreaking’ Trans Documentary

An episode of her eponymous talk show featuring transgender entertainers and activists Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox went south when Couric asked Carrera about the state of her “private parts.”

“I’ve learned a lot since that show,” Couric told TheWrap during an interview about her upcoming documentary, “Gender Revolution,” which airs Monday on National Geographic.

Her two-hour National Geographic documentary explores everything from the difficulties facing the transgender community to places where social acceptance is growing.

[...] the Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBT advocacy group, announced it’s honoring Couric for her “groundbreaking work” later this year.

The Yahoo! anchor talked to us about her latest project, the new terminology she’s picked up during the filming, and the lesson she learned from a controversial eight-second edit in her gun documentary, which came under fire earlier this year.

I’m very interested in taking a step back and trying to look at the big picture when it comes to major social issues and cultural issues, and I noticed that something has slowly been happening, probably too slowly for the gender-non-conforming community that is hard for a lot of people to understand, and I wanted to be a proxy for people who are interested in the subject but wanted to be better educated about it.

Many in the trans community are worried the Trump administration might roll back recent advancements. 

Was the political climate a factor in making this movie?

In my experience, I’m seeing many more gender non-conforming people working in companies and news environments and media companies, but on camera not so much, and that’s something to consider.