National Geographic is a 128-year-old publication and to start 2017 they will make history with an iconic image connected to an activist family with Kansas City roots.
Checkit . . .
The issue is focused on the “Gender Revolution” and features interviews conducted with more than 80 transgender and gender-expansive youth across the globe.
And most notable of all that the person with this honor is none other than a 9-year old transgender girl, Avery Jackson of Kansas City, Missouri.
On the cover, Jackson is quoted as saying, “The best thing about being a girl is, now I don’t have to pretend to be a boy.”
Links . . .
Daily Mail UK: Transgender girl Avery Jackson stars on the cover of National Geographic
Huff Post: National Geographic Makes History With Transgender Cover Girl
Out Magazine: Young Transgender Girl Appears on Cover of 'National Geographic'
A couple of years ago CAMP MAGAZINE wrote one of the first stories on the activist family . . . UPDATE . . . Normally we don't like to feature youngsters on TKC but this really is an iconic moment in media history and the image has already been circulated around the world . . . BUT . . . I still didn't feel right putting a kid's face on the blog but was also nagged by not being forthright and descriptive about the deets of the story . . . As always, TKC stupidity came to the rescue and THE BELOVED AWESOME EMOJI offers a nice way to depict the essential facts of the story without betraying our instincts never to put youngsters in front of our blog community . . .
Still, the debate goes beyond mere personality or media hype . . .
IS KANSAS CITY PREPARED FOR THE SO-CALLED 'GENDER REVOLUTION' AND YOUNGSTERS WHO IDENTIFY AS TRANS?!?!
Like it or not, THIS is the forefront and the latest manifestation of the post-modern civil rights era as both Conservatives and Progressives struggle to understand evolving conceptions of identity.
YOU DECIDE . . .
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