Published: 6/6/2012 - Updated: 1 year ago

Janet Jackson gets behind transgender documentary

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LOS ANGELES -- Janet Jackson has signed on as an executive producer of a documentary on the lives of transgender people living around the world.

New York-based Brainchild Films announced Monday that Jackson was working on Truth and would do some of the on-camera interviews. The documentary begins production this summer and will focus on the lives and struggles of transgender persons.

Jackson writes in a statement that she is working on the project to try to stop discrimination of the transgender community. The 46-year-old sister of Michael Jackson has starred in several films and won five Grammy Awards.

Truth will be directed by Robert Jason, who previously directed a documentary for The Style Network on four transgender New Yorkers.

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