Political Correctness Has Missed Transgender?

[Amy Gray]

Let me put it another way. Name me transsexuals who are well known in popular culture other than being porn stars. In the whole of television why haven't we got just one attractive young transsexual news reader, or weather girl, presenter, fashion expert, celeb chef etc etc?

If your a young gorgeous transsexual the only opinions are porn star.

Maybe trans women would rather not be well known for being trans? Though Lana Wachowski comes to mind.

[Ecstatic]

Wow, I knew Tula was around pre-Bond, but I never saw that ad before. Playboy also featured her in a pictorial later in the '80s, their only trans pictorial ever afaik. They took a lot of heat for that.

[BellaBellucci]

Maybe trans women would rather not be well known for being trans? Though Lana Wachowski comes to mind.

Gods DAMN, I love her! <3

~BB~

[Ecstatic]

Maybe trans women would rather not be well known for being trans? Though Lana Wachowski comes to mind.

Or further back, Wendy Carlos, the musician formerly known as Walter.

[amberskyi]

Candis Cayne?

Yeah. Because there's nothing like pointing to a woman with a punny drag queen name referring to her former penis as the public face of transsexuality. I'm sure that will force society to accept that we're NOT men in dresses.

I still love you though, Amber.

~BB~

I never said she needed to be the face of the ts community but she has had some mainstream acting roles and is attractive which is the criteria the OP was looking for.

[BellaBellucci]

I never said she needed to be the face of the ts community but she has had some mainstream acting roles and is attractive which is the criteria the OP was looking for.

True. But her name bugs the ever-living shit out of me.

And let's face it, a name is the label of a person's identity. It says a lot more than people realize.

~BB~

[MacShreach]

Wow, I knew Tula was around pre-Bond, but I never saw that ad before. Playboy also featured her in a pictorial later in the '80s, their only trans pictorial ever afaik. They took a lot of heat for that.

You sure? I thought I'd posted that here before.

Nway. It was 76, you know? Punk--the real stuff--had arrived. The Pistols had just turned the cultural landscape on its ear. Ska had returned. The Queen still mattered and she had a jubilee, but the country was bankrupt. We were all smoking pot, driving motorcycles, screwing like crazy and waiting for the Russkis to blow us all to fuck.

Nobody gave a shit what Tula's background was, it was all cool. Everything was cool.

By 1981, Thatcher had arrived...

Since you like her and you're a nice lad...

[MacShreach]

I have to say though, I blame Tula for everything. She was the one that did for me. Her and that fucking body paint my god I had dreams about that. Did I have dreams! And you know she's six foot? Holy crap! Heaven on legs!

[fred41]

Yeah...I mean,if a transsexual makes it in mainstream media as a woman...I would guess chances are she not going to come out because it would already be "mission accomplished" for her...unless she was outed by some asshole. There may , in fact already be some more names we can't come up with because no one knows they're transsexual.

[Castor_Troy05]

Sadly political correctness only really protects the easily offended. Complete waste of time and we won't have any assistance from them for Trans women.

Mainstream acceptance would not be having someone be famous and trans, it'd just be acceptance of her as another woman in whichever field she's in. Kim Petras for example, seems to constantly be rolled out as "youngest ever sex change" yet her music is always a distant afterthought. I'd love nothing more than to see TS women occupying leading lady roles or whatever, instead of being a bad punchline to a joke only misogynists laugh at