Sunshine girl

[sal 306]

love it

I love that this happened. Loved the follow up media coverage. Best thing the Sun has ever done.

[ATM]

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[OldMediGassed]

Love it. This kind of reaction ends up helping LGBT people along. The average person, even if they're not passionate about gender issues, simply does not want to be associated folks like this. In the seventies a lot of Christians heard what Anita Bryant had to say and were absolutely embarrassed. Every time Fred Phelps makes a statement, the LGBT movement gains a few more straight allies. I love The Million Moms (even though there are probably only a few hundred of them) -- every time they say something nasty, I'm sure that PFLAG's ranks swell.

the white power knuckleheads are all fired up over this sacrilege! they still can't spell though.

http://www.stormfront.org/forum/t966065/

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/k...-not-trannies/

[OldMediGassed]

You're most .

Thank you!

[toban]

The beginning of a movement towards acceptance!

I love that this happened. Loved the follow up media coverage. Best thing the Sun has ever done.

I suspect, from what has been said by TheSUN about this particular instance, that the choice to select Diva's fashion shoot as simply one more very pretty girl in their long-running series was truly coincidental and without deliberation and the question of gender was on no one's mind at that time. The editors obviously approved it!

What followed the countrywide publication of her photo spread was a verification by the general population that Diva had been accepted, as the newest pretty female in that long running series.

Now that this issue had hit the streets across the country (without the sky falling or the sun failing to rise in the East) I have no doubt that the inadvertant success of this shoot will inspire TheSUN to recruit more such "Sunshine Girls" in the future from this community.

I'm certain most of us can recommend any number of other girls who'd also be prime candidates for such a spread. I have a few in mind myself!

[Ana_Jolie]

Less than a year ago, on June 19th, the Ontario government passed Toby's Law, which amends the Province's Human Rights Code to protect people from discrimination based on gender identity and gender expression. This enshrines in law the basic right of people to live as the gender they believe they are. There's nothing here for the Sun to retract. It's not like they skewed a hard news story, which they do as a matter of course. Had the model specifically lied about being transgender, the paper would certainly be saying so now. They didn't ask if she was cisgender; she didn't tell them she was transgender.

Given the new legislation, it would be interesting to see what might happen if the Sun were to question models about their gender status.

What is interesting about the story is that the Sun, a newspaper that has had strained relations with the LGBT community over the decades, ends up publishing a photo of a trans woman that is clearly intended to appeal to its male heterosexual readership. One of the previous posters put up a link to a story in Xtra about the Sun photo. That story links to a previous article in Xtra, describing the Sun's treatment of the LGBT community. Recently, local media have been falling all over eachother to eulogize the late Peter Worthington, the Sun's former editor-in-chief, who, following the 1981 Bath House raids in Toronto, published the names and addresses of men charged -- charged, mind you, not convicted.

So the little paper that has dedicated itself to killing progressive thinking ends up promoting it. Karma.

Really happy you posted this! Thanks

[candyhilton]

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well the thing is with Diva she's 100% passable so how was the sun even soupose to know?

lol I may be 100% unpassable, but hey thats OK.

I think personally it was a goof on The Sun's part (they assumed she was a real girl).

and if I was Diva I wouldnt tell them I'm a tgirl... cuz if they dont ask, dont tell!

[Shyla Wild]

well the thing is with Diva she's 100% passable so how was the sun even soupose to know?

Simple....she got ratted out.

[tao1kiku]

She is absolutely stunning (though I have a soft spot for brown girls). Especially so since she started transitioning less than two years ago. While her track record as an escort (according to reviews here) is not that great, perhaps she actually does have an excellent opportunity for modelling in the fashion industry!

[Photo Mann]

Haters gonna hate . . .

It about time this happened. Time to smash some barriers AND perceptions, because they are so limiting in our society. We should have events like this happen on a regular basis to wake those who walk around in a nice, neat, conformed trance. People are too comfortable with the status quo. A society that is comfortable, makes little progress, and is easily influenced and controlled. Anyone that thinks this beautiful human being shouldn't be acknowledged in this manner, is entitled to their opinion. However, I think society would be better off as a whole, with a little more acceptance.