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transNews agencies work so hard to present LG issues in a sensitive manner, as they should. But frankly, I'm weary of reading blurb after blurb about Felicity Huffman playing a man(sic) about to have a sex-change operation.
First of all, men don't have sexual reassignment surgery (unless they are FTM). Second of all it is wrong to address transsexuals as anything other than the gender presented. Bree, Felicity's character in Transamerica, is a woman. Not a man wanting to be a woman. Not a man pretending to be a woman. But a woman. She lives as a woman and is taken as such by those around her.
Why won't CNN show as much sensitivity to trans issues as they do with Brokeback Mountain?
Bless her heart, Felicity has done so much to correct people on their misgiven stereotypes about trans women. Nobody asked her to, she's choosing to do this on her own. It's a shame reporters aren't paying the slightest bit of attention. (especially considering Felicity's performance in Transamerica won her a Golden Globe last night)
First of all, men don't have sexual reassignment surgery (unless they are FTM). Second of all it is wrong to address transsexuals as anything other than the gender presented. Bree, Felicity's character in Transamerica, is a woman. Not a man wanting to be a woman. Not a man pretending to be a woman. But a woman. She lives as a woman and is taken as such by those around her.
Why won't CNN show as much sensitivity to trans issues as they do with Brokeback Mountain?
Bless her heart, Felicity has done so much to correct people on their misgiven stereotypes about trans women. Nobody asked her to, she's choosing to do this on her own. It's a shame reporters aren't paying the slightest bit of attention. (especially considering Felicity's performance in Transamerica won her a Golden Globe last night)