Mass media and the face/stereotype of the transgender community

[clearleeraines]

Everywhere I look it's about trans F2M or M2F Period. Thats it! thats US? all of us? They don't realize there IS so much more to it! agender,androgynous,etc.
YOUR OPINIONS PLEASE

Thanx, Clear.

[kellb]

My catchphrase of the moment is "being differently-different sucks!".  People like to think in clear binaries/dualities/partisanships... it's a human thing.  We form tribes/teams/troupes/groups/cults/cliques/cicles like nobody's business.  All of these things are deeply predicated on our personal sense of who we are and what is "Normal".

And then along comes us.

Remember the old rallying cry of "But it's not normal!"  Yeah, like normality is a good thing? It's normal that people die, that people fight, that people suffer.  Norm-ocracy is stupid.

Nobody likes fence-straddlers.  Bi-racial, bi-sexual, bi-gendered, non-binary, otherly-sexual... geeze, it's too complex to build a 10-second soundbite around!  We can't even get people just to realise that issues are more complex than Republicrats vs Demoplicans.   From the media's perspective, it's better stick to the clearly identifiable teams you can create a narrative around and establish empathy.  Even if they want to help, it's beyond their power to communicate it in an effective manner.

[suzifrommd]

I think the concept of non-binary fries people's circuits. Unfortunately for us, people are wired to see two binary genders and their imaginations don't stretch far enough to envision what non-binary might look like.

[Allison Wunderland]

I think the concept of non-binary fries people's circuits. Unfortunately for us, people are wired to see two binary genders and their imaginations don't stretch far enough to envision what non-binary might look like.

One problem is that insight into gender requires formal study in "gender theory" or ID with the group. Media can't present that sort of theory to a popular, hetero-normative audience.