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Setting the Stage for Transgender Awareness
What's a Cis to do?
In the decade since the Brandon Teena biopic “Boys Don’t Cry” hit the big screen and garnered Hillary Swank an Oscar, matters of gender have become fodder for daily consumption. Four years ago, “Desperate Housewives” darling Felicity Huffman played a man transitioning to a woman in “TransAmerica.” Actress Alexis Arquette completed her male-to-female transition in 2007. Even beauty pageants are taking notice and offering tiaras for Miss Transgender.
It doesn’t end there. Just three months ago, a Hollywood concert spawned the most viral pop culture rumor about status since our cousin’s best friend’s nephew’s neighbor was in the emergency room with Richard Gere and the gerbil by questioning whether Lady Gaga was intersex.
Will the real Lady Gaga sex organs please stand up?
This week marks the 11th Transgender Awareness Week, and as a recent “Seventeen” article shows, the general social awareness towards individuals that defy the conventional understanding of sex and gender still has a long way to go.
