Transgender people emerge from closet

[LostInTime]

The Journal Gazette
By Regine Labossiere
Hartford Courant

Mara Keisling, executive director of National Center for Transgender Equality, partly credits the Web and medical advancements with allowing people to express themselves physically. That outlet, she says, has created a domino effect.

"There's so many trans people out that more and more people do have trans people in their lives, and that's going to cause more trans people in the media," she says. "... When the entertainment media stories happen, they really have a dramatic impact. When they're done sympathetically, they make people feel safe and more willing to come out.