“Transgender People in The Media” When thinking about gender and the media, I am immediately drawn to the work of Laverne Cox. As stated in “Bell Hooks: A Conversation with Laverne Cox,” Laverne is an award-winning actress, producer and advocate for not only transgender women, but women of color and anyone who goes against the status quo. For my main source, I have chosen to use the dialogue from the inaugural talk with Bell Hooks and Laverne Cox at The Bell Hooks Institute, “a new center in Berea (Kentucky) dedicated to critical thinking and contemplating the intersectional issues of race, gender, and class” (Hooks 25). This talk that occurred in 2015, highlights what Laverne hopes to accomplish through playing different roles on camera and
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Specifically, I want to discuss the way that media has begun to portray transgender people in the media. This will be done through using a variety of sources, that focus on transgender icons Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, and the story of Einar Wegener in “The Danish Girl.” Using interviews and various articles, transgender women in the media will be looked at and questions will be asked regarding why it is so difficult for these men and women to speak to the …show more content…
This tells us that not only are transgender people not represented equally in the media, they can even be pitted against one another. Because being trans is more than simply a social issue, it is often accompanied with questions and many misconceptions about transgender people. It makes the transition difficult when women like Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner are rarely talked about without the conversation of transitioning because about of the conversation. “For her part, the transgender woman is hypersexualized through pornographic imagery and an association with prostitution. It is a process of de-gendering through focusing on a sexuality considered deviant” (Espiniera 326). This is what we see in Caitlyn Jenner and her cover of Vanity Fair, and the challenge that the media faces. Can the media portray transgender people as they are and still sell their stories, or is the sexualization of women of any background an inevitable
Specifically, I want to discuss the way that media has begun to portray transgender people in the media. This will be done through using a variety of sources, that focus on transgender icons Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner, and the story of Einar Wegener in “The Danish Girl.” Using interviews and various articles, transgender women in the media will be looked at and questions will be asked regarding why it is so difficult for these men and women to speak to the …show more content…
This tells us that not only are transgender people not represented equally in the media, they can even be pitted against one another. Because being trans is more than simply a social issue, it is often accompanied with questions and many misconceptions about transgender people. It makes the transition difficult when women like Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner are rarely talked about without the conversation of transitioning because about of the conversation. “For her part, the transgender woman is hypersexualized through pornographic imagery and an association with prostitution. It is a process of de-gendering through focusing on a sexuality considered deviant” (Espiniera 326). This is what we see in Caitlyn Jenner and her cover of Vanity Fair, and the challenge that the media faces. Can the media portray transgender people as they are and still sell their stories, or is the sexualization of women of any background an inevitable