American Apparel Debuts First Transgender Model: Great or Gimmicky?

Tell us how you really feel Rusty. :)

Transgenders are people, too, and it's really about time that they weren't excluded from careers because of that.

She should live out her dreams doesn't matter what her sexual orientation is she's human.

I dont understand how people can bring their ignorance on this topic. There is nothing wrong with being gay and it is not a choice. I did not choose to be straight an why would I choose a life style that is hated by, looked down upon, tormented, bullied etc (no offense to any one) And if it was a choice then why not stop being gay? You can't because it is not a choice. Again I did not choose to be straight I am just attracted to males.


The only choice is going under the knife but if you don't feel comfortable with your body go ahead and change it. So what if she was a man or he was a woman, all that matters is that they are happy.


I am a proud American and the last time I checked this was America, a place that encourages individuality! Let people be people and live their life!

Well said.

Is she off of America's next top model? :) I love her.

if thats what she wants to do....
i wouldn't wear those clothes though, they're not gay enough for me ;)



now we're talkin'!

Its not a she, it will never be a she, you can dress up like a Barbie Doll all day long but that doesn't mean its a real woman.

looks real to me....

To YOU.

gosh, a libertarian who doesn't respect other people's life choices? seems odd but being a libertarian myself i know its a very BROAD political view.

i think there will always be a group of people who view things this way:

a. gays can get 'married'
b. a transwoman is a woman and a transman is a man

then there will be the opposite group who:

a. gays can be together but i don't want to call it "marriage"
b. a transwoman can look like a woman but i don't want to call her a "woman"

I have no problem with gays marrying.

A transwoman? What is that like, the Transformers, please spare me your psycho babble, as for me being a libertarian, you can cut your dick off and walk backwards in a tutu all day long if you want but it won't change the fact that you are a man and regardless of what operation you go through or what you think, you are a dude.

i have this image in my head. i'm just walkind down the street, living my life (in a tutu lets say). you for some reason feel the need to walk next to me holding a sign pointing at my head saying "MAN, NO MATTER WHAT, THIS IS A MAN." no matter how far i run, where i go for some reason YOU FEEL THE NEED to stand next to me and hold this sign or metaphoricaly hold this belief? why? is it your god? your science? your closed mindedness?

if i want to live as a girl, why can't i? its not like it affects you. i mean you probably wouldn't even know if i didn't tell you? but then why do i have to live in fear as to how i am? just to prevent Dbags like you from calling me a "transformer?"

I didn't say you couldn't live as a girl but that does not make you a girl no matter how much you tell yourself that or how many laws you pass, you are a dude, if you want to play makeup go ahead, but you are and will forever will be a man, no matter what law, no matter what hormones you inject, no matter what surgery you do, you are what you were born with and no amount of man made technology can ever change that.

I agre, chromosonally, genetically, physically I won't be but that's OK with me. I'm happier. but do you feel I should legally still be male? even though you can't tell I used to look like a boy unless I tell you? should I be using the male bathroom? I mean do I just identify as a gay male? i don't get it

Don't like it? Ignore the ads. Worried about your children being "brainwashed" by the ads? Teach them what you think is right and quit blaming the media for everything. Your think it's gross? Good for you but not everyone thinks that. Your religion is against it and says it's perversion? Not everyone believes in your religion.

Isis was always my favorite.

I think this is awesome and I do hope this trend continues, though she's a little skinny for my taste.

It isn't a woman, it will never be a woman, I don't care how many hormones you pump into your body, fake boobs and a fake vagina does not make a woman, its a dude and will forever be a dude.

It doesn't matter what you have or don't have physically. If you know that you ARE what you are deep down, then that is what you are. SHE is a woman. Get over it.

Hey thanks for admitting the problem is in the persons head, its still a man.

To YOU. But your opinion doesn't define who she is to herself, and that's what matters.

Obviously the Ron Paul person is very, very uncomfortable with this topic because it twangs some nerve.......The more s/he rants on ,the more I think s/he's taking something very personally here. Ron Paul person, you can't be at peace with yourself when you're being so hateful and angry. You're just going to give yourself ulcers. Just let go and let live and we'll all be better for it.......especially you.

he secretly wants to bang a tranny and probably thinks finding a transsexual pretty, cute, or hot makes him gay and he gets all confused and this confusion leads to hate and what better way to hate a transsexual than to call her a man?

I think that its great to,make a statement and to make everyone feel comfortable, just do not take to far

Although I thought that all American Apparel were pretty much transgender already. At least the ads looked that way. ;-)

I stand against these things and will never accept homosexuality as anything but a deviant behaviour. No replies necessary.

wrong

haha funny man.......funny man......SIR SIR SIR BE CAREFUL SIR!....u are a funny man

lol.

You so SILLY....

Please, equality? Just because you choose to chop off your damn penis and your nads then pretend that you are a girl. You can't fool what you once were, chopping your freaking parts off doesn't mean a thing, all it means is, you chopped your man parts off, that is it, no matter how many hormones, boob jobs, creating a vagina you do, you are still a dude and will always be a dude.

Was this the Original Trans whatever?

....That's not how that operation works at all, btw. It's more of inverting that chopping off.

Oh please, like I care how its done, inverting or chopping off, its gone, regardless it still doesn't make you a woman and that is the point.

I'm just saying that if you're going to rant and rave about a subject, at least get your facts right. It doesn't seem like you've done any research into the subject simply because it's one that you do not agree with. You don't seem to know why anyone would choose to go through such an operation, thereby it does not make sense to you.

Gender identity has nothing to do with pretending to be the gender you are not, it has to do with feeling that you were born the wrong gender. The operation does not change how you feel inside, it simply changes what you look like on the outside to match how you feel you should be and who you are on the inside.

There are those who were born with male parts, but feel inside that they are female. Just as there are those born with female parts and feel that they are male. There are even those that are born with both. What do you do then?

I'm not saying you have to agree with the decision that some people make. You don't even have to like it. But if you're going to keep yourself ignorant to the subject matter and the realities of it, yet still throw a fit about it and tell others who they are and are not, expect that there will be people that will point out your follies.

What a bunch of psycho babble you came up with, I don't give a rats ass about your justification about what constitutes how they "Feel" trapped inside another gender(bunch of bs) there is no such thing as someone being trapped in another gender, what it is called is this, mental illness. You damn right I will tell them who they are and who they aren't and what this mental deficient dude is. Get over it, nature gave you a pair of nuts and a penis, you are not going to change it no matter how you feel or want to be of another sex, as for the hermaphrodite, that's called a birth defect, bunch of freaking dumbasses.

Psycho babble? Yet I'm not the one upset to the point of insults and making gross assumptions of the feelings of others. Who are you to say how anyone else feels? You are not them. You cannot read their minds. Just because you have never experienced such a thing for yourself does not mean that it does not happen to others. It's not mental illness to feel differently about yourself. It's not an imbalance in the chemicals in your brain to feel such a way. Saying such is ignorance. That's not an insult, that's a fact. It's simply not learning (or not caring enough to learn) the facts of a situation. As such, you really have no business giving such an opinion on any subject that you don't know about.