What Does Being a Transgender Person Mean?

[enigmaticrorschach]

What Does Being a Transgender Person Mean?

http://www.chicagonow.com/shades-gender/2015/05/what-does-being-a-transgender-person-mean/

By Terri Lee Ryan
May 14, 2015

"For most of the people who have not been exposed to the transgender world, it is confusing. Bruce Jenner's interview with Diane Sawyer helped raise awareness about the transgender community. And since Jenner is a highly-recognizable figure people watched the interview. Yet, most people don't know the various groups within the transgender community; there are many."
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this seems interesting

[Dee Marshall]

It strikes me as overly simplistic and starts off on the wrong foot. She states that all transgender people cross dress at an early age. Plenty of us don't cross dress at all before we know who we really are. I have no doubt some people will latch onto that to say "you're not trans, I've never seen you wear a dress!"

[Asche]

Among other glaring deficiencies, she also leaves out pretty much the entire FAAB transgender population.  It doesn't surprise me, due to our culture's devaluation and dismissal of pretty much anything that is considered "female" or "feminine."  (And from our culture's cis-centric point of view, they count as "female.")  If she considers herself a journalist, she should have done a little more research before writing this.

I don't think that article deserves even one star.