Diego Sanchez: Transgender Insult on CBS
by Karen Ocamb on February 5, 2011 | 4:01 PM
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Editor's note: The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and National Center for Transgender Equality released a groundbreaking report on the widespread prevalence of discrimination against transgender people at the Creating Change conference on Friday. And that night, CBS' The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson demonstrated exactly why taking action on such discrimination can wait no longer. Chris Geidner at MetroWeekly and Pam Spaulding at Pam's House Blend have stories. But please read the personal traumatic reaction below from Diego Sanchez, the openly transgender Legislative Assistant to Rep. Barney Frank D-MA4). – Karen O.)
By Diego Sanchez
On Friday night I watched CBS, the network that features a series of Public Service Announcements (PSAs) promoting CBS Cares, the network's initiative around tolerance, embracing difference as a path to understanding.
I hadn't imagined that I would relive some of my life's most excruciating memories at the mercy of CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The segment on CBS on The Late Late Show deflates the CBS Cares "tolerance" plea.