Don Lemon Foiled Again by the Transgender Thing
Filed By Dr. Jillian T. Weiss | August 25, 2011 10:00 AM
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The Joy Behar show recently had CNN's Don Lemon host a panel with four trans people working in the TV and film industry: Chaz Bono of the Emmy-nominated documentary Becoming Chaz, Laverne Cox, reality television producer and actress, Harmony Santana, star of the film Gun Hill Road, and America's Next Top Model Isis King. This was a groundbreaking opportunity to talk about transgender and transsexual people in the entertainment industry, following up on interest in the topic from the New York Times and other media outlets. Instead, there were a series of flubs going from bad to worse.
This is not good for Lemon's credibility in the trans community, especially coming on the heels of his difficulties at the NAACP LGBT Town Hall, where he said that talking about the "gay" community is sufficient to include transgender people without ever mentioning them, that, in any event, transgender issues ought to be discussed in a separate forum, and that we're just hung up on letters.