- Courtesy of Vevmo
The cast of The Real World Brooklyn looks to differentiate itself from the previous twenty seasons on MTV by having the first transgender cast member.
The cast’s head shot compilation was posted on Vevmo and combined with my sources indicate the naming of the cast is as follows – starting clockwise from the top left.
- Kate
- Sarah
- Baya Voce
- Devyn Simone
- Chet Cannon
- JD Ordonez
- Ryan Conklin
- Scott Herman
This would be the first time a transgender cast member would be on The Real World and hints to why for the first time filming starts with eight instead of the usual seven cast members.
The reason I am told there are eight cast members to start with is because Kate may be leaving for the transgender surgery in Taiwan during filming and then return post-op – similar to another MTV reality series True Life.
Other interesting highlights of this cast include:
- Devyn was the 2005 Miss American Teen National Pageant winner and is looking to be a singer.
- JD is a dolphin trainer from Miami and had reportedly dated CNN news anchor Anderson Cooper according to the Gawker.
- Chet is both a virgin and a mormon so the rest of the cast have taken it upon themselves to help him lose his virginity when they go out, which is generally in Manhattan since the Red Hook area has given the cold shoulder to the cast.
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As a regular guy born a guy who likes girls born girls, I am afraid that I may meet a girl who wasn’t born a girl or isn’t a girl and I may think that he/she is a girl. I am not hating on anybody here. I am not sure what I believe in exactly. I am simply afraid that this comes true in my life. Do all transgendered people tell the person that they will or are romanticly involved with, that they are transgendered? I don’t know if making it more mainstream will solve the problem. But it may.
Why should it make a difference how someone was born? If you are attracted to them now, you are attracted to them now. When someone tells a romantic partner is highly personal and varies … some when they meet, others before things get to the state where they are intimate, some after, even a few that never do (although that last is a highly dangerous route).
It matters because I hope to have children one day. And for other reasons.
SM – So? You can still have kids… through artificial insemination, surrogate, or adoption. Infertile, gay and lesbian couples use those techniques all the time.
And are you *sure* the girls you dated were “real” girls? They could’ve been intersexed, meaning they had an extra or missing chromosome, among other things.
The main thing is, dear is that we transsexuals like Katelyn *ARE* real girls! We were just born with a birth defect needing surgical correction.
Seriously, that trans shit is wrong, 2009 or not. and im not ignorant, i know all about it and guess what/???? i still think it is WRONG. WAKE UP WORLD ITS THE BEGINING OF THE END>>>
Remember the Pharisees? They made an ostentatious show of being oh-so-purely religious. I hear the old tones of those old posers every time I witness good Christian believers beating up on gender-variant people.
The Christians adding their snarling, hate-filled remarks to this discussion should ask themselves …
What would Jesus have done, standing face-to-face with a person who had been betrayed and condemned by society’s gender stereotypes? You know the answer.
Man I think this Real World sucks compared to the past ones. They don’t party or do anything exciting. Just seems like everything is so serious. They need a party person like Will or Joey last season.
With all due respect, you are not like every other woman. You do not possess female reproductive organs, you cannot menstruate or have a child. I think people certainly have the right to do whatever they want, including mutilating their bodies, but I have the right to think it is unfortunate and unhealthy. I distinguish between people that are gay, and people that are transgender. I have no problems with people’s sexuality, but I find this physical mutilation to be very disturbing. There is a very easy way to find out most people’s gender: give them a Chromosone test. Of course I am aware that there are rare instances where people have strange chromosonal results. But very few transgendered persons fall into this category.
sex =biologically-constructed distinction
vs.
gender= socially-constructed
These do *not* always coincide with each other [male sex-type=gendered man, female sex-type=gendered woman], although as a society we tend to see these terms as interchangeable.
Theyre not.
a) Therefore you CANNOT determine a person's "gender" through a chromosome test
…. have u ever heard of the famous Olympic gold medalist in the 1980s (a hurdler or runner, i think) who was stripped of her medal bc she has XY chromosomes? she menstruated, looked like a woman, defined herself as a woman, was treated as a woman, had female primary and secondary reproductive organs… but was stripped of her medal due to some error in her gene-structure. she was GENDERED female yet her CHROMOSOME composition deemed her a "male". she was a WOMAN, no matter what her invisible genetics said. that's how she saw herself, thats how she was treated, thats how she saw the world and how it saw her back… gender is a social construct.
…and this actually happens a lot more frequently that you might think.
b) transgender is NOT a sexuality. You say u distinguish bt transgendered and gay: that is good bc really they have little to do with one another. Some transgendered individuals are homosexual, yes, but Sexual orientation is determined by one's sexual attraction and/or preference of sexual partner. transgenderism is concerned with who an individual personally considers themself to BE, and manifesting their outsides to match who they ARE on the inside. Transgenderism's primary concern is NOT who one is sexually attracted to. u can have a transgender who has a sexual orientation of gay, straight or bisexual…. and who are we to determine how those labels are applied? A person wouldnt (generally) go through the trouble of changing their sex bc of their sexual preference ….
c) "You do not possess female reproductive organs, you cannot menstruate or have a child" …so is a menopausal female who has had her reproductive organs removed still a woman? This is what youre saying here. According to your definition she's not a woman so who/what is she, then?
Be careful….People need to be more aware of what theyre saying and the EFFECT their words have.
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