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Dylan Orr, Amanda Simpson, And The Media's Trans Gender Gap

Started by Shana A, January 15, 2010, 12:37:22 PM

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January 15, 2010, 12:37:22 PM
Dylan Orr, Amanda Simpson, And The Media's Trans Gender Gap
by: Autumn Sandeen
Fri Jan 15, 2010 at 12:30:00 PM EST

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/14844/dylan-orr-amanda-simpson-and-the-medias-trans-gender-gap

Notice anything different about the coverage of Dylan Orr's Obama Administration appointment and Amanda Simpson's Obama Administration appointment? Why is almost no one in LGBT or mainstream media covering the story of Dylan Orr's appointment? Why isn't the religious right jumping up and down at the idea of Dylan Orr's appointment with the same level of vitriol that they directed at Amanda Simpson?

Well, feminist author Julia Serano gives us a point of view on this phenomena of the media (and religious right) being focused on trans people in the essay Skirt ->-bleeped-<-s: Why the Media Depicts the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels that she included in her book Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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