"So using your stellar logic, if it was written recently (and I never said it wasn't), it must be correct? You must be smoking crack. "
I never said that at all. The fact that hey were written recently was in respone to your absurd comment about the studies reading like something out of a college text book and being written by "leftists" who think it is 1969. Those studies are probably correct because they were done by independent scientists who did not start their studies with preconceived notions (something you have proven incapable of understanding) . And that there are several such studies that support what I said.
And what many people are trying to do is not reliving the summer of love but trying to prevent people like you from creating the century of hate and incivility.
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The New Transgender Reality
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Mind you, also living in the house is Elisa, a woman who doesn't like to label her sexuality but says she's made a hobby of broadening the horizons of straight women. The girls in the house don't make a fuss over Elisa; in fact, Clark, the blonde she'd been eyeing since day one, makes out with her in a hot tub. Gay panic just isn't what it used to be; plenty Americans have close relationships with a gay person--2 in 5, according to Pew Research. But given that 1 percent of the population is transgendered--that's the estimate given by the National Center for Transgender Equality--the odds are much lower that people personally know a transgender person. This is as much uncharted territory for viewers who invite Isis into their homes as for the girls living with her.
Is all this a little exploitative? Sure--they're still reality shows, and that's the nature of the beast. But reality shows have done a lot to spark conversations about sexuality, to make gays and lesbians seem less weird and exotic, to introduce out-and-proud gays and lesbians to people who might never have met them otherwise. By casting transgender people, reality shows put themselves in a position to have that effect again. Sure there has been scripted fare about the topic--"Transamerica," for example--but reality TV has a more transformative effect. Reality shows are largely agenda-free: there's no writer pulling the strings (for the most part). There are real people reacting in real and unexpected ways. Sometimes those reactions will be ugly. Other times not, as in the "Model" scene where Isis asks Analeigh to distract her with funny faces while she gives herself a painful hormone injection. The message comes through: acceptance of those different than you--so easy an aspiring model can do it.
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