Men, Nail Polish and Gender Identity: Did You Know This Was a Thing?
By Christina Uticone Thu., Sep. 1 2011 at 1:30 PM
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/artattack/2011/09/men_nail_polish_and_gender_ide.php​Just as I was wrapping up researching and writing a lighthearted piece about what a man's nail polish color says about him, I happened to tune in to an episode of ABC's Primetime Nightline entitled "My (Extra) Ordinary Family: Transgender Kids." The subject matter was pretty heavy, and the show profiled children as young as two years old who were identifying as the opposite gender. I'm not usually into newsmagazines, but this one sucked me in when, in the opening segment, Nightline made mention of a recent J.Crew controversy regarding -- you guessed it -- boys wearing nail polish. The remainder of the episode was spent discussing suicide rates among transgendered children, profiling a transgender teen (a biological male who wishes to become a woman) who prostitutes herself to pay for surgery, and parents who struggle to support and understand their severely psychologically at-risk children.
Wah, wah. There went my lighthearted take on men wearing nail polish.
