Samantha Allen, Mic Network
September 8, 2014
When TIME passed over Laverne Cox in April for their 2014 list of the 100 most influential people in the world despite overwhelming reader support, transgender advocates criticized the magazine for the obvious oversight.
"Laverne Cox's absence on the list ... reflects the manifold barriers that transgender individuals face in being accepted in the mainstream," the Daily Dot's Kat Haché wrote.
But the June issue proved that TIME's editors had registered the criticism: Cox graced the cover of the magazine beneath the headline "The Transgender Tipping Point." This upcoming fall television season, the transgender tipping point is coming to the small screen in a big way — and its importance will be immeasurable.
While we wait for a third season of Orange is the New Black on Netflix, Amazon will release the first season of the show Transparent, starring Jeffrey Tambor as a transgender mother, while AOL will release a documentary series called True Trans, featuring Laura Jane Grace, frontwoman for the punk rock band Against Me! CNN also recently aired a documentary about Kristin Beck, a former Navy SEAL who came out as transgender last year.
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So is trans finally the new black as far as civil rights are concerned? It's about time.
The makers have said there will be no season 3 as I understand it :-/