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Gay, trans, man, and pregnant: Let's talk about cognitive dissonance in the medi

Started by Butterfly, February 02, 2010, 04:54:56 PM

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February 02, 2010, 04:54:56 PM
Gay, trans, man, and pregnant: Let's talk about cognitive dissonance in the media and the movement
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Filed by: Antonia D'orsay
February 2, 2010 11:30 AM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/02/gay_trans_man_and_pregnant_lets_talk_about_cogniti.php


There's been a recent subject in the news that is vaguely trans and gay related, and it has a particularly squicky feeling about it that's causing issues with all manner of people that's somewhat startling to me.

In this case, it's the recent news that a couple is having a baby. Two men who are running down a dream of family, and, in doing so, they are defeating an age old canard used by the opponents of marriage equality.

But instead of taking it and holding it up and shining a positive light on it and using it to empower the LGBT community as a whole, people are doing something I think is actually pretty negative and defeatist.

You see, one of them is pregnant.
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