The Advocate Joins in Transphobic Media
Filed by: Tobi Hill-Meyer
June 17, 2009 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2009/06/the_advocate_joins_in_transphobic_media.phpIt was bad enough when the New York Post ran the transphobic article "Wedding Crashers" which erroneously describes a trans woman and her cis male partner, Kimah Nelson and Jason Stenson, as a gay couple and how they "duped" the government into giving them a same-sex marriage.
But then the Advocate repeated the story uncritically parroting the same anti-trans message. After some complaints, they've removed the male pronouns referring to Kimah but rather than replacing them with female pronouns they opted for no pronouns.
