Seventeen Magazine Stirs Up Transphobia

[Shana A]

Seventeen Magazine Stirs Up Transphobia
14-Nov-2009
Written by: Joseph Gentile

http://www.thecelebritycafe.com/features/35916.html

Transgender activists allege the popular fashion magazine fostered intolerance against them.

They might not be Twilight vampires, but transgender youth – a recent Seventeen magazine article insinuated – are just as predatory.

In the column, "True Life: My Boyfriend Turned Out to be a Girl," Jessica Press recounted 18-year-old Sheri's tale about getting involved with a boy that bandaged his chest from a "baseball injury" and had a falsetto voice. Surely enough, Sheri eventually discovered the "big-time secret" that her "liar" boyfriend kept.

[Luc]

Very, very sad. Too bad it's hardly the only bit of anti-trans propaganda swimming around out there.

SD

[jesse]

this is so sad really by alienating that particular person in the story of a national magazine i wouldnt be surprised if he dosnt commit suicide at a later point
jessica

[Luc]

I certainly wouldn't go that far. We transguys typically have pretty strong backbones. But it's still pretty crap that someone would write something like this, let alone publish it.

SD