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Joshua Alston asks in Newsweek if the inclusion of Isis in this cycle of America's Next Top Model will promote more acceptance and understanding of transgender people. I share Alston's hope that it can — although I wouldn't point to a little on-camera, male-titillating faux-lesbian action as an example that panic over transgender people is diminishing. As Mediaweek reports today, reality TV is filled more and more often with contestants for whom sexuality and/or gender is neither an issue nor a plot point, which is a great step forward. But I sadly doubt that Isis' appearance on ANTM (or Laverne on I Want To Work For Diddy) will usher in a new age of transgender acceptance — certainly if Fox News and its anti-transgender biases are anything to go by.. More »
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Buck Angel used to be a woman, an extremely unhappy woman stuck in a body that felt completely unfamiliar. That woman tried drugs, tried lesbianism, finally tried therapy and realized she was a man. So she became one. Buck Angel then also became a porn star because even though he was a man, he retained the one thing that many people view as that which makes us women — a pussy. But as far as Buck is concerned, being a woman or being a man isn't about your genitals, it's about who you are — and Buck is, as far as he's concerned, a straight man with a pussy. And it's a pussy he's not at all shy about showing. I guess we can all imagine how well that goes over in some parts. More »
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