Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers
by Scott Stiffler
EDGE Contributor
Tuesday Feb 12, 2008
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The next time you feel undervalued, unacknowledged or discriminated against for living each day as an out gay man, take mom's humbling advice and think about the many people in this world who would be grateful to have your "problems." Or, more to the point, think of those in our community whose struggle with gender identity, acceptance and expression is made absurdly difficult by a culture that renders them invisible, institutionalizes discrimination against them, or fetishizes them as sex objects. On top of that, when they're rarely acknowledged through TV, film or books, they've got to contend with the use of Trans as a cutesy, marketable prefix.