Comments on: Who Botched the Gender Identity of a D.C. Homicide Victim?

By: The Washington Post Cross-Dressing Shoplifting Story Misfires - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:23:14 +0000

[...] identification in the story is contrary to style guidelines. The Post has reason to believe that the gender terminology employed by the police requires fact-checking. Further information in the case could require yet another gender correction [...]

By: David Dillon

David Dillon — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:06:37 +0000

This is for Sussie, I was born male, have a penis and testis, and yet I have breast due to a chemical imbalance...from "our Creator". He seen it fit to put estrogen in a male body - mine, for what? I have lived with a c cup since my adolescents Years and often I am told I am a tranny, a t-girl , a transexual and a freak as well. I for one never point a finger at anyone for then I will have three pointing back at me. Your insensitivity leaves me apalled that you would just throw out there "this was a man" when you use the term abomination...which comes from the Bible. Sex is determined by what lies between the legs. Gender lies between the ears. God did not create all of us the same or we would be little automatons marching to the same beat of His drum! If we were all chemically balanced the same there would not be any illnesses or any use of drugs to get "US" right. God did not make a perfect world, nor the inhabitants either. Some were born with a few cells called a brain...those who weren't are just plum ignorant. I am apologetic that your in the latter class. Just plum ignorant.

By: Jesse Helms

Jesse Helms — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:55:50 +0000

LOL@Kza

By: How the AP Stylebook Fails Transgender Subjects - The Sexist - Washington City Paper

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:07:04 +0000

[...] Associated Press Stylebook sets a fairly helpful standard for media coverage of transgender subjects. According to the AP “sex changes” entry, reporters are to: Use the pronoun preferred [...]

By: kza

kza — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:33:31 +0000

What? Who said I believe in god? I haven't believed in him/her since I graduated from my catholic high school :)

By: Jesse Helms

Jesse Helms — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:24:08 +0000

Kza, who told you there's a God? Didn't you know, many people told believe in a make believe God? Know one have seen Angels or this so imaginary God.

By: Wednesday Link Roundup « The Feminist Texican

Wednesday Link Roundup « The Feminist Texican — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:06:06 +0000

[...] The Sexist: Who Botched the Gender Identity of a D.C. Homicide Victim? [...]

By: kza

kza — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:40 +0000

Sussie is running for god. Keep on judgin'!

By: Elle Mueller

Elle Mueller — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:28:39 +0000

@Sussie
How very unkind.
Funny how everyone I know who made fun of someone who broke abone also later had at least one broken...
...And you mock my lack of reproductive organs...

Although I generally don't wish your kind of treatment on anyone, may you live to see extremely interesting times.

By: Security of Sex: Martyring the ‘Ballbreakers’ – women in and beyond the global

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:50:24 +0000

[...] all of the articles, save Chibarro’s article in the Blade, had already been re-edited. The original versions all referred to Mack and her friend as “transgender men”. News articles that blatantly [...]

By: Sussie

Sussie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:23:47 +0000

Ella Mueller, you don't sound like a woman, but a freak in a Science Fiction movie. lol

By: Sussie

Sussie — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:22:25 +0000

Screw all of you, this was a man, not a woman. To you men attracted to a she male, you are freaks and an abomination.

By: B

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:45:16 +0000

@Ella Mueller

Well said!

By: Mitch

Mitch — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:11:47 +0000

Great article Amanda, Kudos to you!

By: kza

kza — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:23:18 +0000

@Moonflowrr

Yea uhh I wasn't serious...

By: Elle Mueller

Elle Mueller — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:17:52 +0000

@ebcidic I do believe even you are brilliant enough to believe there is such a thing as 'gender appropriate language'. It's simple: men are called men, he, and him; women are caled women, she, and her. What you are rusty on, is what is and isn't a man or woman. To that, I refer you to my response to 'Sussie' just below this sentence. @Sussie I am a woman with no ovaries since birth, and cannot have babies. Am I a freak? Or am I a woman? Your kind of hatred which sweeps people like me into the argument is the true abomination. When someone in my church told someone else I wasn't born 'normal', I was attacked as a transsexual and a gay man, nearly killed three times, nearly raped twice. It didn't happen only because I managed to hurt them faster and run farther. The police weren't sure they wanted to help either! Talk less, think and listen more - you do not know enough about people who are born differently to distinguish us from transsexuals. Just because someone is infertile or castrated does NOT mean God finds them to be an abomination - whether by Catholic, Protestant, or even Jewish or Islamic standards. Do you stand in a higher judicial court than the Almighty's? If someone took your ovaries and uterus due to cancer, you could not prove that you once had them - all evidence is circumstantial. How would you protect your own self from someone else calling you an abomination without resorting to mudslinging?! Think, woman! Think before you speak from ignorance!

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:01:44 +0000

Ummmm... Sussie, I don't know what the "right" way of handling the identification of transgenders is, but if your yardstick is the presence/absence of ovaries and reproductive capability then what do we call women who have had hysterectomies? "Formerly known as a woman"? or is there some symbol you would prefer?

By: Sussie

Sussie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:16:26 +0000

Political correctness have destroyed this country. These creatures don't have ovaries and cannot have babies. Why in the hell you are calling these freaks women? They are an abomination.

By: b

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:46:26 +0000

Amanda Hess writes the worst kind of trash I'd expect on a tabloid.

By: Match

Match — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:33:38 +0000

@ebcidic- So if you're a man and I wrote an obituary calling you a woman, you wouldn't mind?

By: ebcidic

ebcidic — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:19:43 +0000

there is no such thing as gender appropriate language.

Seriously.

Grow up. This isn't junior high.

Seriously, this isn't junior high.

Do I have to repeat myself about the shallowness and immaturity above?

Martin Luther King said that some day all the children will be judged by the content of their character. So let yourselves be judged by the content of your character, by your education, by your success in life, by how you treat others.

Ask to be judged on how you want yourself to be treated at the expense of mocking others? Ask to be judged on the most shallow nature of humanity?

This ain't junior high. grow up.

By: Christine Beatty

Christine Beatty — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:34:06 +0000

Whenever I see reporters get it this wrong, I always refer them to the AP Stle Book which has very simple and clear guidelines for reporting on transgender subjects. Even a New York Post writer couldn't fail to understand those instructions, so either the reporters were all being lazy (and couldn't be bothered to clarify the subjects' identity with the DC cops) or they were sensationalizing the story. In either case, boo-hiss.

By: Passerby

Passerby — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:26:20 +0000

The Examiner was worst of all: Man murdered in double stabbing in Northwest D.C. That's their story and they're sticking with it!

By: S.A. Small

S.A. Small — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:15:04 +0000

Don't feed the troll.

By: Moonflowrr

Moonflowrr — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:14:00 +0000

KZA, for the record, "shemale" is worse than being identified as trans men. As you stated, it's your favorite style of PORN. If one is not involved in the porn industry, then why would they want to be identified with a porn term?

By: kza

kza — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:32:20 +0000

All I'm qualified for is asshat porn? You're a sick human being for even knowing that exists. PERV

By: Thaniel

Thaniel — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:23:14 +0000

Too bad for you, kza, that "insensitive asshats" is *nobody's* favorite genre of porn, because that's clearly all you're qualified for. STFU, sit the hell down, & there's a dim chance that even a planarian such as yourself could learn something.

By: kza

kza — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:21:40 +0000

hehe pussy footing :)))

By: viola13

viola13 — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:57:42 +0000

I really was not shocked by the inept way the press identified the gender of these two women, but I was wholly shocked that the Washington Post failed to mention that the stabbing occurred outside Transgender Health Empowerment, identifying only the street address where it occurred. The location is a critical fact in this story, and its absence is not only sloppy journalism, it is misleading to readers. A generally aware friend of mine, for example, read the Post story and assumed that the Post was implying that the victims were involved in sex work. She assumed that if there was any evidence the attack might have been motivated by hate (like its location), that evidence would have been mentioned in the story. The coy pussy footing around smacks of heterosexism and certainly makes me question the value of the Metro section's reporting.

By: kza

kza — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:43:25 +0000

What an annoying issue. Can't we just call them female? That seems a lot easier. Or shemale, which is my favorite genre of porn.