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The transgender tipping point is a term used to describe a rise in the prevalence and visibility of transgender people in popular culture which took place in the early 2010s. The term was coined on the front cover of Time magazine in 2014 which featured a photograph of transgender actress Laverne Cox, who had recently risen to fame due to her role in the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black.[1]
Time cover
[edit]On May 29, 2014, Laverne Cox was featured on the cover of Time under the headline "The Transgender Tipping Point". Cox had become well known for her role as Sophia Burset in the Netflix show Orange Is the New Black, becoming the first transgender black woman to have a leading role on a mainstream US television show. She had won several awards for her work. The Guardian speculated that a backlash to the non-inclusion of Cox in the Time 100 in April that year through the hashtag #whereisLaverneCox may have been a reason for the cover's existence.[2]
Responses
[edit]Immediate responses
[edit]The words "transgender tipping point" were repeated in several news outlets over the course of 2014, including by The Washington Post.[3] Jane Fae of The Guardian argued that year that "An unstoppable impulse is about to sweep away traditional ideas of gender – and we'll all benefit."[4]
Long-term responses
[edit]Multiple academic studies have taken place in response to the Time cover and article with different approaches.
Other critics have argued that while transfeminine people were represented in the "tipping point", transmasculine people were not included.[5]
In 2022, Danya Lagos in the American Journal of Sociology analysed US cohorts of the public born between 1935 and 2001 to determine whether there had been a "transgender tipping point". They found that respondents born after 1984 were "significantly more likely to identify as transgender or gender nonconforming than respondents in earlier cohorts", but that this varied "along lines of sex assigned at birth, race/ethnicity, and college attendance" which sometimes contrasted with media representation, and that there had been no singular "tipping point" but instead a gradual increase.[6]
In 2023, Cox commented on the then upcoming ten-year anniversary of her inclusion on the cover of Time, stating that "we are at the height of the backlash against trans visibility. We have way more people who are educated about trans folks, but there’s also been a rigorous misinformation media machine," further describing that "The backlash is ferocious. It’s genocidal."[1]
- ^ a b Mendez II, Moises (2023-02-28). "Laverne Cox on What's Changed Since the 'Transgender Tipping Point'". Time. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
- ^ Holpuch, Amanda (2014-05-29). "Laverne Cox heralds 'transgender tipping point' on cover of Time". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ Rosenberg, Alyssa (2014-08-30). "The conclusion to 'Tales of the City' and the transgender tipping point". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ Fae, Jane (2014-05-30). "We're at a tipping point for transgender equality". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ Haug, Oliver (2022-06-17). "Transmasculine Actors Are Still Waiting for Their "Tipping Point"". Vice. Retrieved 2024-10-20.
- ^ Lagos, Danya (2022-07-01). "Has There Been a Transgender Tipping Point? Gender Identification Differences in U.S. Cohorts Born between 1935 and 2001". American Journal of Sociology. 128 (1): 94–143. doi:10.1086/719714. ISSN 0002-9602. PMC 10569496. PMID 37829183.
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