Returning: Louis Theroux

First-run episodes of Louis Theroux will air next month on BBC Knowledge.

Two new episodes, By Reason of Insanity (in 2 parts) and Transgender Children see the intrepid reporter in the US once more.

In By Reason of Insanity, Louis immerses himself in the world of Ohio’s State Psychiatric Hospital, meeting patients who have committed crimes – at times horrifically violent – while in the grip of severe mental illness. They have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and ordered by the courts to secure psychiatric facilities to receive treatment that is hoped to one day lead to their reintegration into society.

In Transgender Kids Louis travels to San Francisco, where a group of pioneering medical professionals are helping children who say they were born in the wrong body to transition from boy-to-girl or girl-to-boy.

Louis is told that children as young as three can show signs of rejecting the gender they were assigned at birth, leaving parents with a difficult dilemma – do they start transitioning a child who is still developing their own identity, or do they wait and risk making the change once their body has gone through the transformations of puberty?

Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity Part One: Wednesday 15th July at 8.30pm
Louis Theroux: By Reason of Insanity Part Two: Wednesday 22nd July at 8.30pm
Louis Theroux: Transgender Children: Wednesday 29th July at 8.30pm