January 10th, , pm. After Letterman showed an image of Simpson on The Late Show, an assistant was seen running from the set screaming: "Amanda? Amanda used to be a dude? Oh my God.
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Which is totally their right! By understanding the funny part is about Simpson being hot. Which — have you seen her? If Kalter was fantasizing about her thus, his being so upset upon learning she was born a man , that means her transition was that good. Or think of it as an inoculation. He was going to say something.
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Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Sign me up! When they turn their sights on transsexual and transgender people they manage a two-fer that tends towards the even more vicious since both women and gays have spent nearly the last 40 years gradually raising awareness that such naked abuse is actually wrong. For transsexual and transgender people it is a first on the order of the first woman to occupy such a position, the first African American or the first gay or lesbian person. If we do not feel a little twinge of pride then perhaps we should.
Commerce Department by the Obama administration. In the clip below David Letterman announces the news, followed by a guest on his show who breaks out in shock that "Amanda used to be a dude" the man is disgusted and outraged and runs off stage, the segment insinuates the man had some sort of relationship with Simpson and reinforces the sentiment that being transgender is somehow disgusting, misleading, and abnormal. This isn't David Letterman's first transphobic problem, he made news on this blog two years ago when he insulted F2M Thomas Beatie the pregnant female to male transsexual. While we approve and acknowledge that Letterman has done some good, ie: standing up for marriage equality , his continual jabs at the transgender community cannot go on without consequence. Contact David Letterman and tell him to apologize for this offensive jab at Amanda Simpson and the entire transgender community.