The trans-mockery of SNL's Estro-maxx skit - reactions from LGBT groups

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The trans-mockery of SNL's Estro-maxx skit - reactions from LGBT groups
by: Pam Spaulding
Mon Jan 31, 2011 at 12:50:41 PM EST

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/18549/the-transmockery-of-snls-estromaxx-skit-reactions-from-lgbt-groups

You know what the sad thing about this is? It's so predictable that the writers at Saturday Night Live probably never gave it a second thought whether this might be offensive. The level of insensitivity is astounding; Transmockery is apparently still A-OK as entertainment.

GLAAD's press release is out:

    This Saturday, on an airing of Saturday Night Live, NBC (a subsidiary of Comcast) broadcast a dangerous and blatantly transphobic segment which they called 'Estro-Maxxx' - the punchline of which was the lives of countless transgender people across the country.