I know we haven't really talked all that much about the transgender topic yet but I have recently read articles on transgender individuals in the news that I think our class would like to know about.
The first article I read relates to the question brought up in class today on transgender twins. They are identical twin girls from China who are in the process of gender reassignment surgery to become men. They will be the first transgender twins in China when they have the surgery. I think that their case is interesting because both twins are changing gender. The article also mentions other twins where one of them changes genders.
The second article is about a Jenna Talackova, a transgender woman, who was kicked out of the Miss Universe pageant. The rational behind that decision was that the pageant rules state that contestants must be naturally born females. Apparently there were suspicions that she wasn't a born female and someone asked her about it, she admitted freely that she had been born a male. Obviously when she was kicked out there was a pretty big uproar from the LGBT community as well as others. She has since been let back into the pageant but she hasn't said if she will compete now. When I read the articles about this issue I was pretty mad that they had disqualified her. I can't help thinking that it might have been one of the other contestants who originally brought up the idea that she wasn't a born female. This might be unfair of me to say of them, but if you look at the pictures of her you would never guess and watch the video at the end of the article at the time she is on, even her voice wouldn't give her away. Donald Trump, the owner of the pageant hasn't specifically addressed the issue of whether the rules will be changed to allow transgender women to compete.
What are everyone's thoughts on these articles?
Article on the Chinese Twins click here
Article/Pictures on Jenna Talackova click here
Article 2 on Jenna Talackova click here
Article 3 on Jenna Talackova click here
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