Let Them Eat Cake
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/transposition/200807/let-them-eat-cakeCapernia Addams
7/30/2008
A few months ago, I released a wryly comedic video on YouTube called
"Bad Questions to Ask a Transsexual: The Director's Cut"
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> , in which I played a
smiling schoolteacher persona who outlined fourteen rude questions
which people ask transsexual women with annoying regularity. Most any
group could make a "Bad Questions" video, I'm sure. Fast food workers
might be tired of a certain set of questions, as might people with
mohawks, and so on. At over 1.1 million views between both versions of
the video as of the writing of this article, it has generated quite a
bit of feedback from the general internet population and actually
revealed not only how much misunderstanding still exists toward people
who cross gender boundaries, but how angry people get when a
transsexual person refuses to be obsequious and take the disrespect.
