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@Meiz: Actually some constructs of gender are just plan hard for people to understand that have been raised with a certain ideal. For example, try explaining to some one what it means to be Asexual especially when they only think in terms of Gay or straight and have been raised as such. It is hard to phantom some one may want the company of both genders with out being sexually active.

After knowing so many gender queer people its a culture shock for the first time and hard to get used to. And really confusing if you don' t have the right person explaining it. I still some times call my friend Mitch by his original name when I see him.

Besides the new pope is okay with other mysterious genders xD its just well the tea party you have to watch out for.

As for the media, it will become more acceptable of transgender people as society does. That is all there is too it. Unless you get some one innovative in the business, they tend to build characters off of stereo types and generalizations and lets face it the first gay men in popular media happen to be people like "The Queer eye for the Straight Guy" When metro-sexual was not a word that people could find acceptable. If you look at it, its not purely boiled down to gender. I mean look at how any race is portrayed in the media for a span of 20-30 years. Asians were boiled down to smart ones, Indians and Hispanics were non existent and Blacks where just the idiot side kick.