So I found this news article when scrolling through cnn looking for something to write about. I chose it because the LGBT+ community is something I very strongly support for quite a few reasons. The article is about a child, born as a female, but whom is truly a male.
The thing especially like about this article is that it does not continually misgender Ryland. It gives him the correct pronouns, which although should be a very simple task many other news articles reporting on transgender seem to not be able to manage it. Especially with famous people. Like Angelina Jolie's SON. Yes. Capital letters since it seems very hard for people to understand. Her son. Who's name is now John. Although this article is talking about how parents need to support their children when they are figuring out if they were born with the correct gender or not, I think it goes in a completely horribly wrong direction of doing so. Especially when, through the whole article, they call John a girl and give him she/her pronouns.
And a shout out to Leelah Alcorn's parents. For being so hateful towards their beautiful daughter that she felt the need to commit suicide. And then continued to be hateful and misgender her even in death. Which to me, is just about the lowest of the low and is completely unfathomable.
Sources:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/18/living/feat-transgender-child-raising-ryland/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/20/politics/obama-transgender-sotu/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/01/us/transgender-questions-leelah/index.html
