Eric Swalwell Tries to Dunk on Trump With Obama-Biden Video, Steps on MASSIVE...
OOF: Marriage Is Upper Middle Class WHITE SUPREMACY, Says ... Upper Middle Class...
MLK Jr. Spirit Award Winner Wishes Utter Death and Worse to Those Who...
MSNBC: Jon Stewart Learns From Complaints, Stops Making Biden Jokes
White House: Senate Republicans Are Relentlessly Smearing Biden's Judicial Nominee
Vanderbilt Tampon Tantrum Takes Terrific Turn
Here Are More Harrowing Details About Nex Benedict
Idaho Tribune Announces Cash Reward for Evidence of 'Hate Crime' Against Basketball Team
Fascism Alert: Washington State to Offer Cash Reward for Reporting 'Hate Speech' and...
BREAKING: Democratic Mega Donor Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced for Crypto Crimes
Jewish Democrats Endorse Challengers to Squad Members
That's Gonna Leave a Mark: Riley Gaines SCHOOLS Scott Wiener After He Calls...
Politicizing the Baltimore Bridge Tragedy and Attacking Conservative Media is a New Low...
Missouri Attorney General Announces Suit Against Biden’s Student Loan Cancellation
The LEAST They Could Do: IL Parole Board Members Resign After Prisoner They...

So woke: CBS special to spotlight the transgender youth overlooked in America's national conversation

Let’s assume you’re one of those cisgender Americans who wasn’t quite sure what to make of President Obama lighting the White House in rainbow colors to celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. The president thought it was “pretty cool” — why shouldn’t you?

Advertisement

Heck, by the time the president had his Justice Department send a reminder to school districts that they were required to allow students to use whichever restroom and locker room matched their gender identity, you were so woke you didn’t even think twice about it.

You’re not quite woke, yet, though: CBS News has stepped up to remind Americans that there are young people going overlooked in the national conversation on transgender rights. A documentary premiering Monday night will remind the cisgender viewing audience that gender is a non-binary concept and goes well beyond identifying with one gender or another.

CBS News reports:

They are called non-binary. They use different pronouns than the rest of us. And they do not identify with being either a man or a woman. Rather, these individuals often choose to reject gender completely, blend aspects of both, or to fluctuate between masculinity and femininity on a day-to-day basis. Simply put, the type of transgender people the media portrays — the sort who transition from man to woman, or from woman to man — are just the tip of the iceberg.

Wow, the media really has failed the public in its reporting on transgender issues, focusing all the attention on the tip of the iceberg.

Advertisement

https://twitter.com/TotesMcGotes/status/846443316933746688

People might feel that way now, but Dr. sj Miller, deputy director of NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools and editor of the “Queering Teacher Education Across Contexts” book series, thinks that gender-fluid youth such as those featured in CBS’s documentary “are really on the cutting edge of pushing our sense of what gender or agender could mean.”

 

* * *

Related:

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Twitchy Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement