blogs.MiamiNewTimes.com – By Kyle Munzenrieder
For as liberal and political correct as everyone perceives the mainstream media, they sure seem confused when reporting on transgendered individuals.
When news broke yesterday that Donnie Hendrix aka Viva was arrested a second time for illegally injecting silicon into clients without a license the resulting media fumbles of how to refer to her were just embarrassing.
Natalie O’Neill profiled Hendrix for New Times back in March. She had been taking female hormones and living as a female since her teenage years, but when she was arrested and convicted for pumping silicon into patients without a medical license (a woman was killed by a botched injecting), she was forced into a Broward male prison, and denied estrogen.