Allison Steinberg to Guest Post on Change.org

by Jen Nedeau · 2008-10-28 14:34:00 UTC
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As Change.org continues to evolve within the blogsphere, it will be hosting several guest bloggers on various issues. Today, I want to introduce readers to Allison Steinberg who will be covering transgender issues on a regular basis here at the Women's Rights blog as well as over at the Gay Rights blog.

Allison is a multimedia artist with a focus on documentary video and journalism covering LGBTQ and gender rights. She is is currently Associate Publisher of Tricycle, a magazine about Western Buddhism. Allison's first post on Change.org appears today on the Gay Rights blog where she looks at trans issues and children:

K.D. is different than most children, though. He was, in actuality, born a she; Katie, a biological female. From the time he was old enough to dress himself, K.D. started wearing boy’s clothing. He insisted on getting a boy’s haircut, and his parents were liberal enough to oblige. He fooled everyone at school, teachers included. It wasn’t until his mother went for open school night that she found out everyone thought he was a boy. K.D.’s second grade teacher kept using the male pronoun when talking about his academic performance until his mother corrected her.

More and more we are seeing cases like K.D.’s. Is it that parents are granting more freedom to their children to express themselves or is the media just starting to cover these stories more? Either way, there seems to be a foundational shift in gender expression that is skewing younger and younger. There are even research centers that now address issues of gender identity with youngsters.

Read the rest of this post over on Michael Jones' blog here and stay tuned for more pieces from Allison to come.

Jen Nedeau Jen Nedeau is a media relations professional and a writer based in New York City.
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