Increasingly Visible Transgender Americans Defy Stereotypes

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/18/opinion/increasingly-visible-transgender-americans-defy-stereotypes.html?_r=0

New York Times/by Ernesto Londono   05/18/2015

"In the day she got a lucky break, the kind budding New York actors dream about, Harmony Santana was living in a Harlem shelter for homeless youth and contemplating what she stood to lose by starting to live as a woman permanently . She was 19 then, in 2010."

Interesting article, I hadn't realised Christine Jorgensen had her operation in the early 1950s, I thought it was late '60s...

Quote"It's gone from marginal to trendy," said Susan Stryker, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, of the study of gender identity.

Oh yeah, we're just soooooooooooooo trendy now. Jeeze.

I hate when being transgender is described as trendy.  Yeah, it's the hip thing to do.   

We can all be hipsters, "I was trans before it was cool." Ugh, one more reason not to be taken seriously.