Content warning: gender normativity, misgendering, transphobia, sass.
The Colorado club shooter is non-binary, according to their lawyers, and CNN's article mentioning it has been properly pronouned.
It was a different story when CNN talking heads were discussing the revelation live, however.
"I don't know what to say about it, that's not anything we had heard from his background".
"I don't know what to say about that, that's what he is now saying".
"That's the least of his problems" (from a different clip of the same roundtable).
CNN then doubled down on its transphobia and reinforcement of gender expression normativity by speaking to a transwoman who said (of the suspect) "it was obvious from the mugshot, that's a man...that is not a non-binary person...in no way, shape, or form could they appear as a woman the next day". (partial credit for correct pronoun usage, points off for implying gender cannot be fluid and for reinforcing a stereotype of what a non-binary person looks like).
The Colorado club shooter is non-binary, according to their lawyers, and CNN's article mentioning it has been properly pronouned.
It was a different story when CNN talking heads were discussing the revelation live, however.
"I don't know what to say about it, that's not anything we had heard from his background".
"I don't know what to say about that, that's what he is now saying".
"That's the least of his problems" (from a different clip of the same roundtable).
CNN then doubled down on its transphobia and reinforcement of gender expression normativity by speaking to a transwoman who said (of the suspect) "it was obvious from the mugshot, that's a man...that is not a non-binary person...in no way, shape, or form could they appear as a woman the next day". (partial credit for correct pronoun usage, points off for implying gender cannot be fluid and for reinforcing a stereotype of what a non-binary person looks like).