The New York Times Is Hopeless On Trans Issues, Again

[Natasha]

The New York Times Is Hopeless On Trans Issues, Again

http://www.bilerico.com/2012/07/the_new_york_times_is_hopeless_on_trans_issues.php
7/25/12
By Jillian T. Weiss

That trashy tabloid, the New York Times, has come out with yet another broadside against transgender people in an article today, "For Money, Or Just to Strut, Living Out Loud on a Transgender Runway." It's a story about transgender youth in the West Village by Sarah Maslin Nir. Here's a brief taste of the article:

    Scores of her friends strutted past in the dark, stopping often to air kiss, catcall or sometimes brawl....Many are working as prostitutes...skintight candy-striped dress...she leaned against a prewar apartment building where some studios rent for $3,700 a month....reducing the scene to one of vice is to get only part of the picture...."I was so blown away," she said. "I'm from the Caribbean -- you have to hide."...platform thigh-high boots, buttocks-revealing denim shorts, red-pleather boleros with matching caps and tops of the backless, sleeveless or even frontless variety...brightly colored like flocks of exotic -- if risqué -- parakeets...But while the T-girls are often beautiful, none deny that most nights here are fraught with ugliness...unruly customers...violent episode at a Dunkin' Donuts...police place giant spotlights to discourage crime...The screaming fight lasted for blocks, all the way to the river and into the night.

[nyx]

Is the writer of this article a transwoman? I hope not.
This article is hopeless and degrading, its like saying yeah there is this crazy group of women who are in some part of town they claim, acting like skanks to relieve the tension. The article is about this scene anyway, Its not trying to claim all transwomen with it, but it does exactly that for most people. People believe what the media tells them, so they believe all trans people are the same(crazy and brawling, more fetish like). Especially bc its new york times. Ahhh stupid. How many stories have they done where they portray a trans model citizen? Probably a couple times.