Posted: Sat, Jul. 14, 2012, 3:00 AM
'Trans' a look at a transgendered New Hope plastic surgeon
By Tirdad Derakhshani
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20120714__lsquo_Trans__a_look_at_a_transgendered_New_Hope_plastic_surgeon.htmlShe's one of the transgender community's most passionate advocates. Yet New Hope plastic surgeon Christine McGinn has an equally intense suspicion of the news media even as she relies on them to get her message heard.
"There is so much ignorance out there about transgendered people," says McGinn, one of half a dozen transgender men and women profiled in Trans, a documentary screening Sunday as part of Philadelphia QFest and one of an unusually large crop of transgender films at the annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival.
"I've been on Anderson Cooper, Dr. Oz, and Oprah Winfrey, and even these shows have a difficulty with transgender representation," McGinn continues. "The most well-meaning hosts can end up making a circus of it all."
