What’s wrong with this picture?

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What's wrong with this picture?
Questioning Transphobia
By Helen C
04 May, 2010


http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2010/05/04/whats-wrong-with-this-picture/


I can understand Mr Velandia's objection to the unrealistic representation of women that Barbie dolls perpetuate (including the fact that the dolls are anatomically incorrect) – it's hyper-feminisation personified – but Ms Cano's "fantasy" of having a doll of a transsexual woman suggests a large degree of objectification, not least because of its upholding of the gender binary.

To complete their bid for winners of today's round of trans bingo, the thinking behind their dolls sensationalises surgery and defines our identities according to our genital topography – and, in his last quote, Mr Velandia also manages to conflate sexuality with gender identity.