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Title: Increasingly Visible Transgender Americans Defy Stereotypes
Post by: stephaniec on May 19, 2015, 09:51:26 PM
Post by: stephaniec on May 19, 2015, 09:51:26 PM
Increasingly Visible Transgender Americans Defy Stereotypes
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/opinion/increasingly-visible-transgender-americans-defy-stereotypes.html?_r=0
New York Times/by Ernesto Londono 05/18/2015
"In the day she got a lucky break, the kind budding New York actors dream about, Harmony Santana was living in a Harlem shelter for homeless youth and contemplating what she stood to lose by starting to live as a woman permanently . She was 19 then, in 2010."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/opinion/increasingly-visible-transgender-americans-defy-stereotypes.html?_r=0
New York Times/by Ernesto Londono 05/18/2015
"In the day she got a lucky break, the kind budding New York actors dream about, Harmony Santana was living in a Harlem shelter for homeless youth and contemplating what she stood to lose by starting to live as a woman permanently . She was 19 then, in 2010."
Title: Re: Increasingly Visible Transgender Americans Defy Stereotypes
Post by: Ms Grace on May 19, 2015, 10:33:24 PM
Post by: Ms Grace on May 19, 2015, 10:33:24 PM
Interesting article, I hadn't realised Christine Jorgensen had her operation in the early 1950s, I thought it was late '60s...
Oh yeah, we're just soooooooooooooo trendy now. Jeeze. ::)
Quote"It's gone from marginal to trendy," said Susan Stryker, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, of the study of gender identity.
Oh yeah, we're just soooooooooooooo trendy now. Jeeze. ::)
Title: Re: Increasingly Visible Transgender Americans Defy Stereotypes
Post by: ChiGirl on May 19, 2015, 10:39:23 PM
Post by: ChiGirl on May 19, 2015, 10:39:23 PM
I hate when being transgender is described as trendy. Yeah, it's the hip thing to do.
Title: Re: Increasingly Visible Transgender Americans Defy Stereotypes
Post by: Dee Marshall on May 19, 2015, 11:08:17 PM
Post by: Dee Marshall on May 19, 2015, 11:08:17 PM
We can all be hipsters, "I was trans before it was cool." Ugh, one more reason not to be taken seriously.