Another Transphobic Headline from NY Post
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 9:33am
by Daryl Hannah, GLAAD's Senior Media Field Strategist

http://www.glaad.org/blog/another-transphobic-headline-ny-post

The New York Post is at it again.

The paper, which has sordid history of publishing salaciously inaccurate and defamatory stories about the LGBT community, yesterday ran a story discussing criticism of Chaz Bono for his recent comments about his transition. Only, instead of showing respect for gender identity and expression, the paper referred to Chaz and Stephen Ira, the transgender son of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening, as "she-men."  This language may seem like just a terrible attempt at juvenile humor, but the truth is that slurs like this dehumanize all people in the transgender community. The New York Post is telegraphing to its readers that transgender people shouldn't be treated with the same respect as others.

Was this written by Daryl Hannah, the actress?  I know she is very involved in environmental concerns, but I was unaware of her being involved in GLAAD.

 

I don't know if its the same Daryl Hannah but you could ask her:

Daryl Hannah, Deputy Director of News and Field Media
hannah@glaad.org

She is listed on the employee site of GLAAD dot org.