Laverne Cox Is Not a Woman
Facts are not subject to our feelings. By Kevin D. Williamson The world is abuzz with news that actor Laverne Cox has become the first transgender person to appear on the cover of Time magazine . If I understand the current state of the ever-shifting ethic and rhetoric of transgenderism, that is not quite true: Bradley Manning , whom we are expected now to call Chelsea, beat Cox to the punch by some time. Manning’s announcement of his intention to begin living his life as a woman and to undergo so-called sex-reassignment surgery came after Time’s story, but, given that we are expected to defer to all subjective experience in the matter of gender identity, it could not possibly be the case that Manning is a transgendered person today but was not at the time of the Time cover simply because Time was unaware of the fact, unless the issuance of a press release is now a critical step in the evolutionary process. Bradley Manning is not a woman . Neither is Laverne Cox. Cox, a fine actor,...