[Blog/Commentary] [Canada] Out on a Limb, Editorial Style
Stephanie Stevens
TRANS TALK
Out on a Limb, Editorial Style
April 25, 2012. 8:16 am • Section: Trans Talk
Posted by: Jillian Page
Speaking of the media, I am astonished by some of the editorial-style
comments I am seeing on some foreign mainstream newspaper sites about
the Jenna Talackova affair. While most of the editorials have some
good points — especially the ones who question the very nature and
relevancy of beauty pageants, with or without Jenna — some are making
assumptions about Jenna that they simply shouldn’t be making.
I mean, what do they know about Jenna’s chromosomes? I’ve asked this
question of general readers before, who often recite the XY nursery
rhyme.
Thing is, we know that chromosomes can exhibit many, many variations.
It is not simply a matter of XY and XX anymore. Does that surprise
anyone in a world in which we have been pumping pollutants into the
environment as if the Earth is some sort of garbage can? Don’t you
think that some of those pollutants have changed the genetic makeup of
human beings, as well as that of amphibians and all manner of God’s
creatures great and small?
People really need to stop making assumptions about other people’s
chromosomes. Times have changed . . .
Jillian
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