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Transgender Comic Creator At Centre Of Media Storm Over TSA Treatment
"The scanner picked up an 'anomaly' in my crotch area." "I said, 'I'm transgender That's my penis,'" Petosky recalled "The TSA officer then said something like, 'If you are a man, then go back in the machine and we'll run you as a man.'" Told by the agent that she needed to be run as a man[...]
SDCC '15: Writing Transgender Character
The trans experience is neither caused or predicated on sexuality. Edwards also discussed a new project exploring gender identities through sci-fi, through the means of an agender society, though was keen to point out it was not an íssues' book. The group discussed topics concerning common tropes involved in when trans characters are introduced in media, and[...]
James Robinson Responds To Transgender Controversy Over Airboy
Instead he talked to the media organisation and pressure group GLAAD to work through the issues being addressed, and released this statement. I thought long and hard before writing this response, with the time it's taken me to do so I fear having been misinterpreted as indifference on my part to the ire this sequence has caused[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 28th June 2015 – Skye High
But this is the week that has been and gone… what did you all read? (UPDATE – this got pushed out by yesterday's Marvel coverage and does not take those posts into account) Top Twenty Traffic Of The Week 1. Making Quake An Inhuman And Changing Her Name To Skye, In The Comics 2. 60 Confirmed, Expected, Rumoured And Assumed Marvel[...]
How Twitter Has Changed Upcoming Justice League 3001 Issues
Transgender folks' bodies are frequently 'gender-checked' by 2/3 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015 ignorant cis people deeming 'parts' the determining factor in gender, declaring ownership of that person's body and identity in doing so 3/4 — MJ Feuerborn (@MJFeuerborn) June 24, 2015 ignorant cis people deeming 'parts' the determining factor in gender, declaring ownership of that[...]
Has Superior Iron Man Introduced A New Transgender Character To The Marvel Universe?
Superior Iron Man has given us a new character, Jamie Carlson, Teen Abomination, the previously unknown son of the late Happy Hogan, a teenager trapped in a body that they doesn't recognise as theirs, and getting rather cross about it all. And in this week's issue of Superior Iron Man, giving us this one scene. "I really didn't now if[...]
Alysia Yeoh – A Future DC Comics Transgender Superhero?
And in doing so, became the became the first transgender character in a Marvel or DC superhero comic who hadn't used magic, wasn't an alien, or used science fiction to facilitate that in some way She just was While there had been strides in the LGBT representation in comics, that T was somewhat lacking, and when present was[...]
Batgirl With A Gold Dress On
Much revolved around traditional tropes of transexuals or transgendered being the bad guy, how Batgirl had make great strides in presenting the transgendered as just another aspect of life and that this destroyed much of their progress As a result of commentary, the creative team (but not DC Comics) issued an apology. Bleeding Cool commentator and[...]
Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher And Babs Tarr Apologise Over Batgirl Transgender Storyline
In recent years, Gail Simone writing Batgirl presented a transgender character, Alysia Yeoh, as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon's flatmate, her backstory emerging over time It was a considered, underhyped portrayal of a transgender individual as a very normal person in Batgirl's life. In this week's Batgirl, (SPOILERS) we meet someone who is running around Burnside dressed up as[...]