A look at the Transgender youth today and what has been beneficial and hurtful to the contemporary transgender movement

1. Transgender Youth Today:
Inspired by Laverne Cox
Brittney Kenney

2. Laverne Cox and OITNB
Kohan, J. (Producer). 2013-2014. “Lesbian Request Denied” Orange Is The New Black. Episode 3. Season 1. Retrieved from
http:// www.netflix.com/
Steinmetz, Katy. "The Transgender Tipping Point." TIME Magazine. Jun. 2014.

3. Trends
• Mainstream as Normalization
• What’s really happening with
today’s transgender youth?
"Victims or Villains: Examining Ten Years of Transgender Images on Television." GLAAD. Web.
Doan, Petra L. 2007. “Queers in the American City: Transgendered Perceptions of Urban Space.” Gender, Place & Culture: A
Journal of Feminist Geography 14 (1): 57–74.
Person, and Vanity Fair Magazine. "Caitlyn Jenner: The Full Story." Vanity Fair. July 2015. Web

4. Research Done Right
• Laverne Cox and OITNB
• “John” FTM Trans teenager interviews
• “Growing Up Trans” Documentary
• Class and Outside Readings
Fink, Marty and Miller, Quinn. 2013. Trans media moments: Tumblr, 2011–2013. Television & New Media. 23 October 2013
Navasky, Miri and O'Connor, Karen. 2015. “Growing Up Trans”. PBS. Frontline.
Stryker, Susan. 2008. “Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity.” Radical History Review, 100: 144–57.

5. Money Rules the World
• Costs of
Transitioning
• Buying the
“Pretty” face

6. Perks of the Internet
TUMBLR. Lioninamousesuit. 2015

7. Related to the Readings
• Transhistory
• Maggie Nelson
• Kate Bornstein
• Normalizing the transition
Bornstein, Kate. 2013. Selections from A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The True Story of a Nice Jewish Boy Who Joins the Church of
Scientology, and Leaves Twelve Years Later to Become the Lovely Lady She Is Today. New York: Beacon Press.
Nelson, Maggie. 2015. Selections from The Argonauts. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Graywolf Press.
Stryker, Susan. 2008. “Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity.” Radical History Review, 100: 144–57.

8. Now What?
• Media Interpretations
• Tumblr and the Internet
• Queer Spaces
Doan, Petra L. 2007. “Queers in the American City: Transgendered Perceptions of Urban Space.” Gender, Place & Culture: A
Journal of Feminist Geography 14 (1): 57–74.

9. Thank you Laverne
• Laverne Cox and
OITNB
• The Media
• Money
• The Internet