Commodification of Transgender People

 

Newsflash: trans people spend money.  Your Gender Rebels Kath and Faith discuss some recent television commercials that show transgender women. Are such advertisements respectful to transgender people and their experience or are they simply turning transgender people into a commodity that can be exploited for PR and profits. 

Here are the two ads: 
Secret Deoderant Transgender Ad
Danish Electronics Store Transgender Ad

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