Update: Saturday Night Live's Trans-Bashing Still Not Funny
by Tom Basgil Jr. · February 04, 2011
http://news.change.org/stories/update-saturday-night-lives-trans-bashing-still-not-funnyAs of this post, over 3,500 of you have signed the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's petition demanding that NBC issue an apology for Saturday Night Live's transphobic skit and remove the piece from web and television sources. However, a representative from SNL told FOX411, "We're not going to comment on that."
For those who don't know, Saturday Night Live recently aired a mock commercial for Estro-Maxx, a fake estrogen therapy medication. In the sketch, scruffy men wearing wigs and fake breasts talked about how the once-daily pill has made their transition from male to female easier and more convenient. Although the audience found the commercial hilarious, the object of their amusement wasn't a joke: male-to-female transgender people. The transgender community already has enough hatred to deal with. Did SNL really need to poke more fun at their struggle on national television?
