Comment of the Week: Darren Cohen
Filed by: Dr. Jillian T. Weiss
March 13, 2011 7:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/03/comment_of_the_week_1.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2011/03/comment_of_the_week_1.php)
In Joe Mirabella's post on the horrendous events in Forrest City, Arkansas, in which 25-year-old trans-woman Marcal Camero Tye was found dead in Forrest City, Arkansas, after being shot and dragged by a car, Joe wrote about the apparently improper use of pronouns by local media reports.
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Projector Darren Cohen asked a question that is probably on many people's minds when such awful stories come to light. How do we know what a person's gender identity is when they (or others close to them) aren't around to tell us?