Is It Transphobia Or Just Bad Journalism At Seventeen Magazine?

[Butterfly]

Is It Transphobia Or Just Bad Journalism At Seventeen Magazine?
Pam's House Blend
By Autumn Sandeen
24 October 2009


http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13730/is-it-transphobia-or-just-bad-journalism-at-seventeen-magazine



I just knew I was not going to like the take on trans people when I had an article entitled My Boyfriend Turned Out To Be A Girl. Seventeen Magazine November 2009 CoverThe piece was forwarded to me by teen lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community activist Ariel Bustamante.

In quick summary, in the Seventeen magazine issue for November, a young adult named Sheri, in an "as told to Jessica Press" article, talks about dating someone who the article describes as a liar -- a female-to-male young trans man who the article proclaimed as really being a "she." The bolded and enlarged segment of the article text, put into a text box in the center of the piece, stated "It felt like my whole first love was a lie."

[Shana A]

Is It Transphobia Or Just Bad Journalism At Seventeen Magazine?
by: Autumn Sandeen
Sat Oct 24, 2009 at 16:00:00 PM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/13730/is-it-transphobia-or-just-bad-journalism-at-seventeen-magazine

I just knew I was not going to like the take on trans people when I had an article entitled My Boyfriend Turned Out To Be A Girl. Seventeen Magazine November 2009 CoverThe piece was forwarded to me by teen lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community activist Ariel Bustamante.

In quick summary, in the Seventeen magazine issue for November, a young adult named Sheri, in an "as told to Jessica Press" article, talks about dating someone who the article describes as a liar -- a female-to-male young trans man who the article proclaimed as really being a "she." The bolded and enlarged segment of the article text, put into a text box in the center of the piece, stated "It felt like my whole first love was a lie."