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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2013-11-22

"[T]he media needs to show our humanity, and not to constantly exploit us. I know that there is a tremendous amount of work to be done, to help reduce unemployment and harassment of trans people -- but the media can help bring this change about by altering the narrative. I want to see a trans person on a TV show whose gender identity is as unremarkable as anyone else's. I want to see a show that simply shows that being trans is just one more way of being human." -- Jennifer Finney Boylan, quoted in "11 Transgender Stars Weigh In on Trans Images in Entertainment", The Wrap, 2013-11-15

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posted by [identity profile] sodyera.livejournal.com at 02:35pm on 2013-11-22
Unfortunately, the words "sex change" are still grist for comedy writers, who are mostly unreconstructed homophobes with their own mental problems to deal with. To change the image, we need to write breakthough trans characters who do not lock onto the stereotype, i.e. Jack from "Will & Grace".
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