Vision TV Program Gets a D-

I'm tempted to give it a D-. I had been sort of hoping that the pronoun troubles and emphasizing that they were "transgendered males" were isolated to the article, but this wasn't the case.

To its credit, it didn't outright criticize or condemn transition, it called it a behaviour rather than a sin, but that's still not the same as allowing for the possibility that (as the article title said) God may have made transgendered people, rather than people who "misguidedly believe" that they're transgendered. The only time we hear that God had anything to do with it was from the mouths of the interviewees themselves, and that not often. It seemed to me the same old "hate the sin / love the sinner" adage when it came to the church argument for being LGBT-affirming.

The producers tend to have some sway in putting together a production like this, and I wonder how much of what we saw was coloured by what the producers wanted to show. I don't know what the selection process was for the interviewees, but certainly their selections didn't much challenge the stereotypes that people have of transgendered people, other than to humanize us slightly. And then, all we saw of them was clothes shopping, putting on makeup, getting dressed, etc., the photo albums, and one of the girls out taking photos in male mode. All I really saw presented to viewers was a caricature, and I wonder how much of that was what the producers suggested they do for the camera, as opposed to the interviewees' own initiative.

I suppose that I shouldn't have let the other recent media treatments get my hopes up about this one.

Take care;
Mercedes