Time Magazine: Attacking Transgender Bias is the Next
'Social Movement'
by Warner Todd Huston 30 May 2014,
12:04 PM PDT
Now that gay marriage seems to be a foregone conclusion in the United States, Time magazine is predicting the next "social movement" to
overtake America.
The magazine is promoting "The Transgender Tipping Point" on its June
9th cover.
As part of its cover story, the
June issue features a full-standing cover shot of Laverne Cox, the star of the
Netflix drama Orange Is the New Black. Cox is a transgendered male who
identifies as a female.
Cox celebrated the cover with a
May 29th tweet, which said, "Thanks @TIME for this lovely bday present, a
cover story 2 highlight the profound issues trans people face everyday."
In an extensive interview with
Time, Cox is said to be the newest spokesperson for the transgender community.
Her chief refrain is "genitalia isn't destiny."
"I think what they need to
understand is that not everybody who is born feels that their gender identity
is in alignment with what they’re assigned at birth, based on their
genitalia," Cox said.
He added:
If someone needs to express their
gender in a way that is different, that is OK, and they should not be denied
healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of
violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if
you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.
In the interview, Cox also seems
to think that everyone is "insecure about our gender":
They think, "Okay, if there’s
this trans person over here, then what does that make me?" We want to just
coast along in a belief system that makes us feel secure, because we are a
culture, as Brene Brown would say, that is intolerant to vulnerability. And if
we are in a position where we have to begin to question this very basic idea of
"A man has a penis and a woman has a vagina," then that’s a lot of
vulnerability.
Even as print media, and magazines
in particular, continue a slow decline in sales, Time still has a circulation
of over 3.3 million.
But many feel Time's feature of
Cox as its June cover girl is the magazine's attempt to make good with
transgender fans because Cox was left off its recent 100 Most Influential
People reader’s poll, which spawned a Twitter campaign replete with the hashtag
#WhereIsLaverneCox.
Time may very well be trying to
prevent a backlash over leaving Cox off the list after it was reported that she
received the fifth highest number of votes, despite not being officially in the
running.
But at least one gay advocate
website was pleased with the new June issue, stating that after the slight over
the 100 list, Time was offering a great apology. "It's an entire issue
dedicated to a movement she's come to be the face of. If that's not a
proverbial olive branch, than [sic] show us what is," wrote Hayden Manders.
Time magazine
Samantha
Power was a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the International Rescue Committee, is the United Nations U.S. ambassador, and married to Cass R. Sunstein.
Note: George Soros is a board
member for the International Crisis
Group, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank), Urban
Institute (think tank), ProPublica,
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and
the New America Foundation.
Clifford S.
Asness is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and supported same-sex
marriage in New York.
Cass R. Sunstein
is married to Samantha Power’s, and
a senior fellow at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Strobe
Talbott is the president of the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and was an editor for Time magazine.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), is the president of
the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), a director
at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Alger
Hiss was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and Whittaker Chambers
accused him of espionage.
Alger Hiss - New Deal (Past Research)
Friday, May 30, 2014
Whittaker Chambers
accused Alger Hiss of espionage, and
was an editor for Time magazine.
Susan
E. Tifft was a public affairs director for the Urban Institute (think tank), and a writer & editor for Time magazine.
Priscilla
Painton is an advisory board member for ProPublica, and was a deputy managing editor for Time magazine.
Walter
Isaacson is the president & CEO for the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was a managing editor for Time magazine.
Fareed
Zakaria is a director at the New
America Foundation, the editor-at-large for Time magazine, and an advisory council member for the Acumen Fund.
Andrea
Soros is a director at the Acumen
Fund, and George Soros’s
daughter.
George
Soros is Andrea Soros & Robert Soros’s father, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a supporter for the Center
for American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress.
Robert
Soros is George Soros’s son, and
married to Melissa Soros.
Melissa
Soros is married to Robert Soros,
and a friend of Kate Betts.
Kate
Betts is a friend of Melissa Soros,
and a contributing editor for Time
magazine.
Morton H. Halperin
was a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, and is Mark
Halperin’s father.
Mark
Halperin is Morton H. Halperin’s
son, and was a senior political analyst for Time magazine.
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