Hallmark Is Now Selling Cards to Celebrate Transgender People Who Are Transitioning

Glamour ^ | May 19, 2017 | Suzannah Weiss

[Zakeet]

There are greeting cards to celebrate and support people through all stages of life, from graduations to career changes to birthdays. But until recently, these sentimental notes haven't always included words of encouragement for transgender people or offered congratulations for a major event in their lives: transitioning. That, however, is now changing: Hallmark has started selling cards geared specifically toward the transgender community.

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One in every 137 teens is transgender, according to a UCLA School of Law study published earlier this year. Due to societal stigma, trans people - and trans youth in particular - have a higher risk of depression and anxiety. But as other research suggests, this risk can be reduced if trans youth are given support and affirmation starting at an early age-and encouraging words like these are one way to provide that.

[nickedknack]

“Heard you’ve been made a ‘technical advisor’...

“Didn’t think you had the balls, but was I wrong!”

Regards, Dr. Kutcherpeckerov

[PROCON]

Roses are red

Violets are blue

You used to be Mike

Now you're Sue

[Yaelle]

We All Got Together To Say
The Office Just Won’t Be The Same
We lose a Terrific Guy
but We Will Love The Beautiful Dame!

enclosed Gift Card for Victor’s Secret

[GraceG]

[ Do the cards come with shears on the front? ]

The female to male cards are pop-up cards...

The male to female cards have perforated sections you can remove to make holes.

[Puppage]

Make a buck wherever you can.....................

Or a doe, apparently.

[PROCON]

I’m surprised the “study” didn’t say 1 in 3 teens is transgender.

[Yaelle]

To My Wife Upon Her Transition

I’ve loved you for what seems like forever
To lose you would make me quite sick
Nothing you do would ever change me
Even now that you’ve got your d*ck

I love you Sweetie

[dfwgator]

Moe: “Oh see the deer. Has the deer a little doe?

Curly: “Soitently, two bucks!”

[RedMDer]

I’m sorry for your loss. :)

[SoFloFreeper]

The dying business of greeting cards just lost one of their few remaining customers.

I still buy greeting cards. Not from Hallmark anymore.

[Drawsing]

-Satire-
The CEO of Hallmark made the following comment. “The current winds of culture say that this is okay now. We will follow these winds wherever they lead us. There is no other standard by which we make our marketing decisions. Culture and money are our Gods.”

[Cobra64]

I stopped watching their channel and buying their cards a few years ago when they went gay.. along with JC Penny and a few others.

It's amazing that a company will try to cater to 0.01% of the population, and piss off most everyone else.

[BigEdLB]

Hallmark Cards usually have rhymes:
Ya lopped it off,
And had implants done,
So we won’t scoff,
When hair’s in a bun,
GOOD LUCK!

[HamiltonJay]

Congratulations, you're a whackadoo!

[mykroar]

Due to societal stigma their mental illness, trans people - and trans youth in particular - have a higher risk of depression and anxiety.

[morphing libertarian]

That’s Whack-a-dong!!

[dfwgator]

Jeff: Walter, what do you do for a living?

Walter: I write greeting cards.

Jeff: Could you give us some examples?

Walter: All right! how about a "Get Well" card?

Jeff: How does that go?

Walter: Sorry to hear you're sick!.... Dirtbag!

[RightGeek]

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Haven't bought Hallmark in years. $4.99 for a card? You've got to be kidding!

Dollar Tree store: 50 cents.

[MoochPooch]

The comments & “poetry” on this thread are hilarious.

But seriously . . .

I have recently had a lot of trouble finding religious wedding cards. Also for bar mitzvahs.

This seems to point to a disturbing trend. Anything traditional, or with traditional gender roles, is being phased out of many stores.