>> ...the media’s habit of treating transgender people as curiosities rather than human beings... is ignorance that kills. “It is a state of emergency for far too many trans people in this country,” Cox, best known for her role as Sophia on Orange Is The New Black, wrote in a Tumblr post last week. That remark came a few days after a segment on Katie Couric’s daytime talk show in which the veteran broadcast journalist asked Cox and Carmen Carrera, another trans woman, “Your private parts are different now, aren’t they?” ...were a country in which trans people, trans women of color in particular, are murdered so frequently, most national publications don’t even deem the stories worthy of being covered. How telling.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 00:40:13 +0000
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