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That was real nice of you to include "dating transgender women" as an example of degradation on television. Makes all of your trans readers feel great -- seriously, I thought you were less backwards than to engage in hand-wringing over the mere existence of trans people on television heralding "gender befuddlement." Sadly, you're probably right that that's what transgender is supposed to represent from network executives' point of view too. But could you maybe agree with them a little bit less? There are hundreds of thousands of trans people in this country, and far more of us have dates than you think. It's really insulting to have "dating a trans woman" come near the low end of a list of humiliations, after being cheated on and excluded from reproduction and just before being anally raped by a monkey. You fit right into the whole exploitative mode going on, good job.
