[ifinnegan]

How about a bit more description?

It is true, Norman Lear and other Hollywood started pushing this, called sex-change then, back in the 70’s.

[higgmeister]

Just tell us what it is Dude.

[JohnBrowdie]

this thread is uncomfortable.

[skr]

What state was this in? I was only subjected to the drug movies.

[Tammy8]

That movie would not have been shown in my little country school.

My grandfather’s ranch was about an hour from Trinidad, Colorado. We passed through there a lot when I was a kid, when I was old enough to remember things we never ever stopped there. Barely slowed down going through. I used to look out the window as we drove by and wonder why. My dad would not stop there, if one of us had to use the restroom we went on up the road and went behind a bush.

As I got older I remember hearing my mother and aunts whispering about what was going on in that little town, at some point I figured it all out. The sex change capital of the world or so they claimed, started there in the 1960s. In the beginning it was a secret to those outside the town. One of my aunts was a nurse in another small town hospital in that area and she heard from other nurses what was going on there. Of course when it was established then it was publicized.

[DesertRhino]

That sure as hell didn’t get by the Texas Textbook Commission in the 1960s or 70s.

[Cubs Fan]

The first I remember hearing anything about it was a transexual tennis player named Renee Richards in the 70s who had a sex change from male to female. That was about it for a long time.

[Unam Sanctam]

I remember listening to a record back then by Marlo Thomas, “Free to be You and Me”. There was a song about a boy wanting a doll.

[Delta 21]

The proper vernacular back in the day for this sort of thing was “faggot crap”.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I remember a movie where these two guys get two girls in the car with them and the one in the backseat screams “mines got a dick”.

[WKTimpco]

I saw the little video. I don’t think it’s about gender dysphoria. The kid Bill doesn’t say he’s a girl. He says he wants a doll.

[Teacher317]

Does anyone here remember 1993-1996? Bill Clinton is hailed as a hero for passing "Don't Ask Don't Tell", and the movie "The Birdcage" makes $185m at the box office (on a $31m budget)

Does anyone here remember 2006-2019? Republican are excoriated as monsters for passing Don't Ask Don't Tell, and people get punished and lose their jobs for saying "but you're not a woman"... just as Armand (played by Robin Williams) said to his lover Albert (Nathan Lane) in the iconic movie.

Albert: Don't give me that tone!
Armand: What tone?
Albert: That sarcastic contemptuous tone that means you know everything because you're a man, and I know nothing because I'm a woman.
Armand: You're not a woman.

[Celtic Conservative]

Rocky Horror?

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[Jed Eckert]

It's been going on much longer than that. George William Jorgensen Jr. got the ball rolling (no pun intended) in 1951 and magically became Christine Jorgensen after having surgery in Denmark.

In the late '50s and early 60s he would appear in various newspaper articles and on some of first TV talk shows (Open End, The David Susskind Show) to parade his mental illness.

[moovova]

I gave up watching those crappy high movies after they showed us “Signal 30” and “Prom Night”.

[Phillyred]

[Buckeye McFrog]

I went to a Catholic school, so, no.

[Tell It Right]

I remember being uncomfortable watching Quantum Leap. The first time or two Sam (Scott Bakula) “leaped” into the place of a woman in the past it was cute. But after a few times it was more than uncomfortable.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Well.. I do remember the song ‘Lola’ being blasted in my high school lunchroom during the early 70’s.

[the OlLine Rebel]

ABSOLUTELY!

I remember Billy wants a doll, a doll, a doll....very much!

I remember many of the shorts they showed us then. This didn’t gain much traction, despite whiny Alan Alda’s pushiness. But I still remember the catchy chant.

Look. I have no huge problem with it. No one ever makes fun of girls for being like boys. But it’s of more concern because of what it means in the long term.