Skirt Chasers: Why the Media Depicts the Trans Revolution in Lipstick and Heels

 
1 Steve Rogers, “Lawsuit Settled, ‘Crying Game’-Like ‘There’s Something About Miriam’ Premieres in UK,” RealityTVWorld.com, February 23, 2004; Debi Enker, “Reality Reaches New Low,” The Age, May 20, 2004; Emily Smith, “Miriam’s Secret,” The Sun Online (www.thesun.co.uk).
2 Nazila Fathi, “As Repression Eases, More Iranians Change Their Sex,” New York Times, August 2, 2004.
3 Shawna Virago, in correspondence with author, April 12, 2004.
4 Nancy Nangeroni and Gordene O. MacKenzie, in conversation on GenderTalk, program 538, November 26, 2005 (www.gendertalk.com/real/500/gt538.shtml).
5 Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed, 9, 148, 276-277; Califia, Sex Changes, 61.
6 As quoted in Califia, Sex Changes, 239.
7 Ibid., 178. It should be noted that Pat Califia and Patrick Califia are the same person; he is a trans man, and I refer to him as Patrick Califia, the name he currently uses, throughout the text. In the notes section, I use whichever name appears on the book that I am citing.
8 Raymond, The Transsexual Empire, 79.
9 Ibid., 99.
10 Ibid., 100.
11 Ibid., 99.
12 Ibid., xix.
13 Lisa Vogel, “Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Sets the Record ‘Straight,’” press release issued by Lisa Vogel, August 22, 2006.
14 Anderson-Minshall, “Michigan Or Bust”; Sarah Liss, “Politics of Pussy: Bitch and Animal on a Revolutionary Gender-Bender,” Now (Toronto), July 25, 2002.