Newsweek’s Profile of Transgendered – Racist, Sexist?
In a cover story titled “Rethinking) Gender,†Newsweek magazine announces – “A growing number of Americans are taking their private struggles with their identities into the public realm. How those who believe they were born with the wrong bodies are forcing us to re-examine what it means to be male and female.â€
This Newsweek web link at –
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18618908/displaymode/1107//s/1/framenumber/1
contains a photo gallery of fourteen transgendered individuals – persons who have changed their public sexual identities from male to female or vice versa.
Of interest :
11 of the 14 are male-to-female gender reassignments.
3 of 14 are female-to-male conversions.
The ethnicity of the persons portrayed looks like:
7 Hispanics
3 African-Americans
3 Whites
1 Asian
Of the Hispanics, all 7 are male-to-female reassignments.
Of the African-Americans, 2 of 3 are M > F.
Of the Whites, 2 of 3 are F > M.
The lone Asian is M > F.
So, the obvious question — other than whether Newsweek is racist and sexist in its profiling of transgendered persons – is how come Latina women don’t want to become men? (Isn’t Charo still alive on stage in Las Vegas?)
Also interesting is that there were no (acknowledged) Muslim transgendered persons profiled.
Most sadly (you be the judge), only one or two of these tragically gender-reassigned individuals present a credible or attractive simulation of the opposite gender they pretend to be.
The daily performance of the masquerade must be exhausting. (They all look a bit tired and stressed out….)
Newsweak… indeed.
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May 13th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
And in related news, watch the video at right about the woman posing as a man and….SHOCK….found out there was a certain decency about us fellows. I have a theory to posit about transgendered folk (uh hem) that it has to do with sexual deviancy and sexual deviancy only…but I’d be afraid to say that.
May 13th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
I’ll bet almost every one of these people profiled in the Newsweek article are able to check out of hotels particularly early.
If you know why, go to the head of the sick joke class.
May 14th, 2007 at 12:55 am
There are always more male to female transgendered as there are more men who want to become women than the other way around: This, likely, is driven by the highly sensitive males. Our culture is hard on men and thus harder still on the highly sensitive men. A way out is to become female. I am surprised the author found three women who wanted to become men; they’re not all that common.
As for ‘race’ that’s more likely a function of the author than the editors or publisher. The author will have strong Hispanic connections or spoke with an expert who did.
May 15th, 2007 at 4:27 am
Yes, nature gets things slightly askew sometimes. Shortness of everything here, missing bits there, several more of the usual bits than usual over there. And a rare sensation of being that doesn’t fit the accompanying decor. And the individual, at the very least, has to deal with it.
We too, as general folk in each other’s environment, can show some compassion and lend a hand when necessary, but why is it that we are obliged to elevate strange, unusualnesses to some sort of privileged position?
If a chap feels he is a chapess and would be happier with a C cup from Victoria and a frock, that’s his business. Same for chapesses who want a dangly bit and stodgy old trousers from Hugo Boss. We make far too much demand and complain far too much.
Is it too much to ask that we take no notice?