Post #3332700
2023-03-16 22:05 UTC
Okay, starting to see broad bands of media portrayals of transgender people:
Pre-1930: Transgender People are Natural Oddities and/or Deceptive Freaks
1930 to 1970s: Transgender Folks Are a Miracle of Modern Medicine
80s and 90s: Being Transgender Is A Shameful Secret
2000s: Even balance of Transgender Murders and Transgender Celebrations
2010 and onwards: Increasing Normalization met by Increasingly Polarized Coverage
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@miriamrobern@dice.camp 2023-03-16 22:11
The 80s and 90s coverage (or lack thereof) is an interesting pivot point. For most transgender people at that time, they had been advised by their doctors and psychiatrists not to tell anybody that they were transgender. That was the standard then. But I am starting to think that this practice directly resulted in transgender status becoming a secret that nobody wanted to get out. Which in turn made it perceived as shameful and made trans people targets.