Primetime Sends Mixed Transgender Message
Filed By Nancy Polikoff | September 06, 2011 8:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/09/primetime_sends_mixed_transgender_message.phpI was all excited about the ABC Primetime Nightline program last week on transgender children. Especially because in my class this coming week I am teaching about a court opinion in a dispute between divorced parents over custody of their son who wants to dress like a girl. The court sides with the father, who insists the child's gender variance should be discouraged. The case is as painful to read as those in which a trans parent loses his or her child after transitioning - including having parental rights terminated, the most extreme measure the state can take against a parent.
Just a couple of years ago, Barbara Walters did an extraordinary job covering trans kids on a 20/20 special. Same network. I figured it would be just as good.
Well some of it was...
