Two days ago, Saturday Night Live premiered a new episode. For me, SNL has always been a welcome diversion after a long week. But this time was different. If you don't know the show, it is a comedy sketch show. They do lots of current political stuff, but this week it was our turn.

They unveiled a new "fake" commercial. It was called "Estro-Maxx. The once a day pill." Here's the link to the skit: http://www.nbc.com/saturd[...]279560/

I was laughing a little bit until they brought out a "trans woman" with a full beard. I was watching with my friends and I noticed they were laughing pretty heartily. As I mentioned on FB, I suddenly felt very tired and decided not to say anything about how hurtful it was to me.

I realize SNL has a long history of skewering different segments of the population. Unfortunately, most people see us as either a joke or fodder for porn. Is it truly fair when there isn't a "baseline" for "ordinary" trans women?

There is already a FB group set up to have NBC apologize for the sketch. Here's the FB group: http://www.facebook.com/h[...]91&ap=1

I guess I don't have anything else to say. I feel that everyone is laughing about a joke they think is fairly real, without knowing that the joke has absolutely no grounding in reality. When the general public knows next to nothing about who you are, this kind of thing is, in my humble opinion, extremely damaging.