News at 11: reporting on trans issues still of patchy quality; water still wet.(crossposted from BOP)

(crosspost from BOP):

News at 11: reporting on trans issues still of patchy quality; water still wet.

 

There’s a post which has recently been reappearing in my Tumblr dashboard on a regular basis. It’s a quote from an article in Guernica magazine (Trans-Formative Change) which in its opening sentence asserts that “The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years“. The Tumblr quote is usually simply ‘liked’ and the few comments on it seem to be along the lines of “OMG teh poor trans ppl this is shocking“. While I’m broadly in agreement with the sentiment of the commenters, the authoritative tone of the assertion didn’t sit at all comfortably with me. Twenty-three years? Really?

www.birdofparadox.net/blog/

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Here is one of the versions of the article in question:

FEMINISTE

Transformative Change

by Jill on 3.16.2011

Guernica interviews Dean Spade, the first openly trans law professor, about his activism and work with the Sylvia Rivera Law Project. It’s a must-read, but the lead particularly caught my eye: The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years….feministe.us/blog/archives/2011/03/16/transformative-change/

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