T.I.M.A. - Trans/Gender I.D. Media AdvocacyTrans People and Allies Demand Change from New York Timeshttp://transmediaadvocacy.org/?page_id=165NEW YORK, N.Y. — In response to a New York Times article called "For Money or Just to Strut, Living Out Loud on a Transgender Stage," published online on the evening of July 24 and in the print edition on July 25, the Trans/Gender Identity Media Advocacy project (TIMA) is calling on all trans/gender-variant individuals and allies who are angered by insensitive, sensational reportage to action.
The article is part of a "summer nights" column series wherein New Yorkers and their nighttime hangouts are profiled by the paper. This particular piece follows the "T-girls" of Christopher Street from the perspective of author Sarah Maslin Nir, who paints a picture of "beauty," and "buttocks-revealing shorts." The article exoticizes the gender and sexual identities of its trans-women subjects, while alluding to a stratification between the presence of these women (who the column touts, are "mostly prostitutes") and the neighbors who rent nearby studios for "$3,700 a month."
