If you think that trans women are the only ones who wind up with shitty, misgendering media coverage, you're wrong. When reports come in about transgender murders, I often don't know whether the person being referred to is a trans man or a trans woman (or something else), so until now I had assumed this was another trans woman.
Although this occurred an hour away from me, I don't feel that I would do this story as much justice as this perspective from a friend of his. More interesting (and not interesting in a good way) is that this story basically got put on the backburner as far as the media was concerned until the fact that he was transgender went public. The media tends to pick up murder stories based primarily on whether they will entertain us or tug our heartstrings, and the brutal murder of a black male rapper is apparently not news unless they can play the "tranny angle."
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Evon Young's Murder
If you think that trans women are the only ones who wind up with shitty, misgendering media coverage, you're wrong. When reports come in about transgender murders, I often don't know whether the person being referred to is a trans man or a trans woman (or something else), so until now I had assumed this was another trans woman.
Although this occurred an hour away from me, I don't feel that I would do this story as much justice as this perspective from a friend of his. More interesting (and not interesting in a good way) is that this story basically got put on the backburner as far as the media was concerned until the fact that he was transgender went public. The media tends to pick up murder stories based primarily on whether they will entertain us or tug our heartstrings, and the brutal murder of a black male rapper is apparently not news unless they can play the "tranny angle."
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