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| '''Andrea Jean James''' (born January 16, 1967) is an American ] activist, film producer, and blogger. |
'''Andrea Jean James''' (born January 16, 1967) is an American ] activist, film producer, and blogger. | ||
| Herself a ], James has been a leading figure in protests against the work of sexologists including ] and ] who she argues engage in the academic exploitation of transgender people. Her tactics—which include targeting the families of those she opposes—have been described by critics as intimidation and harassment. | |||
| ⚫ | ==Education== | ||
| ⚫ | James grew up in ],<ref name=Bartner3June2016>Bartner, Amy (June 3, 2016). , ''IndyStar''.</ref> and attended ], where she majored in English, Latin, and Greek. After graduating in 1989, she obtained an M.A. in English language and literature from the ].<ref name=Wabash>. Wabash College, October 21, 2008.</ref> | ||
| James runs the website '''''Transgender Map''''', which contains advice for trans people, as well as extensive information about those she considers anti-trans. | |||
| ==Career== | |||
| After college, James worked in advertising, first for several years at the '']'', then for a decade at ]. It was while working there that she ].<ref name=Bartner3June2016/> She became involved in consumer activism, with an interest in medical and academic fraud.<ref name="boingboing.net">Jardin, Xeni (December 28, 2009). , ].</ref><ref>James, Gary (October 28, 2008). , Wabash College.</ref> In 1996 she created Transsexual Road Map, a consumer website for the ] community,<ref>Garvin, Glenn (March 15, 2003). . ''The Miami Herald''.</ref> and later set up HairFacts and HairTell, a website and discussion forum about ].<ref>Painter, K. (March 26, 2006). , ''USA Today''.</ref><ref>Grossman, A. J. (June 5, 2008). , ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref name=Bashour/> | |||
| ⚫ | ==Education and career== | ||
| ⚫ | James moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and co-founded Deep Stealth Productions with her roommate, author and entertainer ], to create content |
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| ⚫ | ] at the Out and Equal Workplace Summit, 2006]] | ||
| ⚫ | James grew up in ],<ref name="Bartner3June2016">Bartner, Amy (June 3, 2016). , ''IndyStar''.</ref> and attended ], where she majored in English, Latin, and Greek. After graduating in 1989, she obtained an M.A. in English language and literature from the ].<ref name="Wabash">. Wabash College, October 21, 2008.</ref> After college, James worked in advertising, first for several years at the '']'', then for a decade at ]. It was while working there that she ].<ref name=Bartner3June2016/> By 1999, she created ''Transsexual Road Map'' (later renamed ''Transgender Map''), an online resource for the ] community. | ||
| In 2004 James founded the nonprofit GenderMedia Foundation.<ref>Ensler, Eve, et al. (2004). . Gender Media Foundation.</ref> The following year she was a script consultant for '']'' (2005), helping actress ] prepare for her role as a trans woman.<ref>Nangeroni, Nancy and MacKenzie, Gordene O. (April 15, 2006). , gendertalk.com.</ref><ref>Tucker, Duncan (2006). ''Transamerica: The Shooting Script''. Newmarket Press, pp. 93, 133. {{ISBN|978-1-55704-732-8}}</ref><ref>Keck, William (November 21, 2005). , ''USA Today''.</ref> She appeared in the ] documentary '']'' (2005), and in 2007 directed a 7-minute film, ''Casting Pearls''.<ref>Adelman, Kim (July 18, 2007). , '']''.</ref> She was a consulting producer for, and appeared in, the reality-dating television series '']'' on the ] digital channel in 2008.<ref>Pozner, Jennifer L. (2010). ''Reality bites back: the troubling truth about guilty pleasure TV''. Seal Press. {{ISBN|978-1-58005-265-8}}</ref><ref> | |||
| Kearns, Michael (2008). . ''Frontiers'', 26(20).</ref> In 2009 she directed another short film, ''Transproofed''.<ref>Everleth, Mike (January 10, 2011). , ''Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film''.</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | James moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and co-founded ''Deep Stealth Productions'' with her roommate, author and entertainer ], to create content by and for transgender people.<ref name="boingboing.net">Jardin, Xeni (December 28, 2009). , ].</ref><ref>Addams, Calpernia; James, Andrea (July 22, 2003). . ''The Advocate'', p. 12.</ref><ref>Nichols, James Michael (February 28, 2016). , ''The Huffington Post''.</ref> They filmed an instructional video, ''Finding Your Female Voice'', to offer voice coaching to ],<ref>Hopper, Douglas (March 5, 2006). , '']'', National Public Radio.</ref> and in 2004 produced and performed in the first all-transgender cast of '']'', debuting a new piece created by ] for the occasion.<ref>Ensler, Eve and Tennyson, Joyce (2005). ''Vagina Warriors''. New York: Bulfinch Press, p. 11. {{ISBN|978-0-8212-6183-5}}</ref><ref>, LesbianAlliance.com. Archived April 6, 2004.</ref> James was also a co-producer of and appeared in ''Beautiful Daughters'', a documentary film about the event.<ref>"Teaching resources: Beautiful Daughters", ''Feminist Teacher'', 18(2), 2008, pp. 179–180. {{JSTOR|40546067}}</ref> According to her website, her work in film has continued, and as of {{As of|2023|December|bare=yes}} she has directed at least 11 videos, shorts, or TV series, and acted as a consultant on many more.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-12-19 |title=Film & TV |url=https://www.andreajames.com/film-television/ |access-date=2023-12-28 |website=Andrea James |language=en-US}}</ref> | ||
| James was appointed in 2007 to the Board of Directors of TransYouth Family Allies, a nonprofit that supports ] and their families,<ref>, andreajames.com, 23 October 2007.</ref><ref>James, Andrea (January 25, 2008). , ''The Advocate''.</ref> and in 2008 to the Board of Directors of ], where she was involved in the restoration of the documentary '']''.<ref>, andreajames.com, 11 June 2008.</ref><ref>Kelly, Shannon (March 6, 2011). , ].</ref> In 2012 she co-founded Thought Moment Media.<ref>, Thought Moment Media.</ref> She directed the 2015 ] ] '']''.<ref> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151127085944/http://www.sho.com/sho/comedy/titles/3416837/alec-mapa-baby-daddy#/index |date=2015-11-27 }}, ''Showtime''.</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | James has served on the boards of nonprofits TransYouth Family Allies<ref>{{Cite web |last=James |first=Andrea |date=2007-10-24 |title=I'm a TransYouth Family Advocate! |url=https://www.andreajames.com/2007/10/23/im-a-transyouth-family-advocate-2/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Andrea James |language=en-US}}</ref> and ].<ref>{{Cite web |last=James |first=Andrea |date=2008-06-11 |title=Outfest Board of Directors |url=https://www.andreajames.com/2008/06/11/outfest-board-of-directors/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Andrea James |language=en-US}}</ref> She writes about consumer rights, technology, pop culture, and LGBT rights on her website, and she has contributed to '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'', '']'' and ].<ref name="boingboing.net" /><ref name="Bashour">Bashour, Mounir and James, Andrea (July 2, 2009). , ].</ref><ref>James, Andrea (December 18, 2007). . ''The Advocate''.</ref><ref name="Nichols4July2016">{{Cite news |last=Nichols |first=James Michael |date=4 July 2016 |title=This Trans Pioneer Has Been Fighting For The Trans Community For Decades |work=The Huffington Post |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/andrea-james-trans-pioneer_us_5776965be4b04164640fc212}}</ref> | ||
| ==Writing and activism== | |||
| ⚫ | ] at the Out and Equal Workplace Summit, 2006]] | ||
| ==Activism== | |||
| ⚫ | James writes about consumer rights, technology, pop culture, and LGBT rights |
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| === Protests against ''The Man Who Would Be Queen'' === | |||
| ⚫ | Together with ] and ], James was a driving figure in protests—notable for their implications for ] and ]—against ]'s book '']'' (2003).<ref name="NYT2007" /> In the book, Bailey argues that there are ]: one a variant of male homosexuality, and the other a male sexual interest in having a female body, a taxonomy critics see as inaccurate and damaging.<ref name="NYT2007">Carey, Benedict (August 21, 2007). , ''The New York Times''.</ref><ref name=":3">Nichols, Margaret (2008). ], ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 37(3), pp. 476–480. {{PMID|18431629}}</ref> James argued that Bailey's work was unscientific with "roots in the eugenics movement," and portrayed gender variant behavior as a psychosexual pathology.<ref>James, Andrea (September 2004). {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171001022451/http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/gender-identity.html|date=2017-10-01}}, tsroadmap.com.</ref> | ||
| Bailey was accused of unethical behavior, including that he had performed research without consent, that he had ] transgender women, and that he had practiced psychology without a license<ref name="Surkan2007p700">Surkan, Kim (2007). "Transsexuals protest academic exploitation", in ] (ed). ''Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender events, 1848–2006''. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, pp. 700–702.</ref><ref name=":1">Dreger, Alice D. (2008). "The Controversy Surrounding the Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age," ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 37(3), pp. 366–421. {{PMID|18431641}} {{PMC|3170124}}</ref>— allegations which a later investigation found to be baseless.<ref name=":1" /> In the midst of the protests against the book, which involved a petition drive and the organized submission of formal complaints, the book's ] nomination was rescinded, and Bailey stepped down from his role as chair of the ] ] department.<ref name="Surkan2007p700" /> Although some praised the protests as successful action against the academic exploitation of transgender people,<ref name="Surkan2007p700" /> others viewed them as intimidation and harassment.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |author=Singal, Jesse |date=December 30, 2015 |title=Why Some of the Worst Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals |url=http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/12/when-liberals-attack-social-science.html |work=New York Magazine}}</ref> | |||
| ], an ] activist and a colleague of Bailey's at Northwestern University whose investigation into the controversy was featured in ''],'' found that the allegations against Bailey were baseless,<ref name="NYT2007" /><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Zucker |first=Kenneth J. |date=June 2008 |title=Introduction to Dreger (2008) and Peer Commentaries |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10508-007-9300-2 |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |language=en |volume=37 |issue=3 |pages=365 |doi=10.1007/s10508-007-9300-2 |pmid=18431642 |s2cid=11494895 |issn=0004-0002}}</ref> and she criticized James for satirizing Bailey with a page on her website with photographs of Bailey's children alongside sexually explicit captions, including calling his 5-year-old daughter a "cock-starved exhibitionist."<ref name=":0" /><ref name="NYT2007" /><ref name=":2">Bailey, Michael J. , (), ''Northwestern Chronicle'', October 9, 2005.</ref><ref name=":1" /> Dreger described James's actions as intimidation and argued that James was motivated by scorn for anyone who disagreed with the "woman trapped in a man's body" narrative of trans identity, referencing the "surprisingly large number" of emails she received from transgender women alleging that James had also harassed them for sharing their stories.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Dreger |first=Alice |title=] |publisher=] |year=2015 |isbn=9781336009288}}</ref> | |||
| Outside of the transgender community and sexology researchers, this controversy is largely notable because of its implications for ] and ]. Some critics of Bailey argue that the protests represent legitimate comment on a topic of public interest.<ref name="NYT2007" /><ref name=":3" /> In a comment to ''],'' McCloskey said "Nothing we have done, I believe, and certainly nothing I have done, overstepped any boundaries of fair comment on a book and an author who stepped into the public arena with enthusiasm to deliver a false and unscientific and politically damaging opinion.”<ref name="NYT2007" /> Bailey's defenders disagree: In the same ''The New York Times'' article, Dreger said, "If we're going to have research at all, then we're going to have people saying unpopular things, and if this is what happens to them, then we've got problems not only for science but free expression itself."<ref name="NYT2007" /> | |||
| ⚫ | Together with ] and ], James was a driving figure in |
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| === ''Transgender Map'' === | |||
| The dispute became heated when James posted a page on her website containing photographs of Bailey's children, alongside sexually explicit captions that quoted or parodied material in Bailey's book. Bailey accused her of harassment, as did ], a colleague of Bailey's at ]; Dreger tried to stop James from speaking at the campus about the controversy.<ref>Bailey, Michael J. , ''Northwestern Chronicle'', October 9, 2005.</ref><ref>Dreger, Alice D. (2008). "The Controversy Surrounding the Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age," ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 37(3), pp. 366–421. {{PMID|18431641}} {{PMC|3170124}}</ref><ref>Nichols, Margaret (2008). , ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', 37(3), pp. 476–480. {{PMID|18431629}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|author = Singal, Jesse | title = Why Some of the Worst Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals|url = http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/12/when-liberals-attack-social-science.html|work = New York Magazine| date = December 30, 2015 }}</ref> James responded that the page was intended to echo what she saw as Bailey's disrespect toward ] children.<ref name=NYT2007/> | |||
| Andrea James runs the website ''Transgender Map'' (originally named ''Transsexual Road Map''), which contains resources and advice for transgender people as well as information about people she sees as anti-trans.<ref name=":1" /> | |||
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American writer, film producer, director, and activist For the Australian playwright of the same name, see Andrea James (playwright).
| Andrea James | |
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| Born | (1967-01-16) January 16, 1967 (age 57) |
| Education | Wabash College (BA) University of Chicago (MA) |
| Occupation(s) | Producer, writer, activist |
| Website | Official website |
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967) is an American transgender rights activist, film producer, and blogger.
Herself a transgender woman, James has been a leading figure in protests against the work of sexologists including Ray Blanchard and J. Michael Bailey who she argues engage in the academic exploitation of transgender people. Her tactics—which include targeting the families of those she opposes—have been described by critics as intimidation and harassment.
James runs the website Transgender Map, which contains advice for trans people, as well as extensive information about those she considers anti-trans.
Education and career
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James grew up in Franklin, Indiana, and attended Wabash College, where she majored in English, Latin, and Greek. After graduating in 1989, she obtained an M.A. in English language and literature from the University of Chicago. After college, James worked in advertising, first for several years at the Chicago Tribune, then for a decade at DDB Chicago. It was while working there that she transitioned. By 1999, she created Transsexual Road Map (later renamed Transgender Map), an online resource for the transgender community.
James moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and co-founded Deep Stealth Productions with her roommate, author and entertainer Calpernia Addams, to create content by and for transgender people. They filmed an instructional video, Finding Your Female Voice, to offer voice coaching to trans women, and in 2004 produced and performed in the first all-transgender cast of The Vagina Monologues, debuting a new piece created by Eve Ensler for the occasion. James was also a co-producer of and appeared in Beautiful Daughters, a documentary film about the event. According to her website, her work in film has continued, and as of December 2023 she has directed at least 11 videos, shorts, or TV series, and acted as a consultant on many more.
James has served on the boards of nonprofits TransYouth Family Allies and Outfest. She writes about consumer rights, technology, pop culture, and LGBT rights on her website, and she has contributed to Boing Boing, QuackWatch, eMedicine, The Advocate, The Huffington Post and Misplaced Pages.
Activism
Protests against The Man Who Would Be Queen
Together with Lynn Conway and Deirdre McCloskey, James was a driving figure in protests—notable for their implications for academic freedom and freedom of speech—against J. Michael Bailey's book The Man Who Would Be Queen (2003). In the book, Bailey argues that there are two forms of transsexualism: one a variant of male homosexuality, and the other a male sexual interest in having a female body, a taxonomy critics see as inaccurate and damaging. James argued that Bailey's work was unscientific with "roots in the eugenics movement," and portrayed gender variant behavior as a psychosexual pathology.
Bailey was accused of unethical behavior, including that he had performed research without consent, that he had outed transgender women, and that he had practiced psychology without a license— allegations which a later investigation found to be baseless. In the midst of the protests against the book, which involved a petition drive and the organized submission of formal complaints, the book's Lambda Literary Award nomination was rescinded, and Bailey stepped down from his role as chair of the Northwestern University psychology department. Although some praised the protests as successful action against the academic exploitation of transgender people, others viewed them as intimidation and harassment.
Alice Dreger, an intersex rights activist and a colleague of Bailey's at Northwestern University whose investigation into the controversy was featured in Archives of Sexual Behavior, found that the allegations against Bailey were baseless, and she criticized James for satirizing Bailey with a page on her website with photographs of Bailey's children alongside sexually explicit captions, including calling his 5-year-old daughter a "cock-starved exhibitionist." Dreger described James's actions as intimidation and argued that James was motivated by scorn for anyone who disagreed with the "woman trapped in a man's body" narrative of trans identity, referencing the "surprisingly large number" of emails she received from transgender women alleging that James had also harassed them for sharing their stories.
Outside of the transgender community and sexology researchers, this controversy is largely notable because of its implications for academic freedom and freedom of speech. Some critics of Bailey argue that the protests represent legitimate comment on a topic of public interest. In a comment to The New York Times, McCloskey said "Nothing we have done, I believe, and certainly nothing I have done, overstepped any boundaries of fair comment on a book and an author who stepped into the public arena with enthusiasm to deliver a false and unscientific and politically damaging opinion.” Bailey's defenders disagree: In the same The New York Times article, Dreger said, "If we're going to have research at all, then we're going to have people saying unpopular things, and if this is what happens to them, then we've got problems not only for science but free expression itself."
Transgender Map
Andrea James runs the website Transgender Map (originally named Transsexual Road Map), which contains resources and advice for transgender people as well as information about people she sees as anti-trans.
See also
References
- ^ Bartner, Amy (June 3, 2016). "Transgender activist amid Hollywood's transition", IndyStar.
- "Andrea James to Give Talk at Wabash". Wabash College, October 21, 2008.
- ^ Jardin, Xeni (December 28, 2009). "Welcome to the Boing Boing guestblog, Andrea James!", Boing Boing.
- Addams, Calpernia; James, Andrea (July 22, 2003). "Transformations". The Advocate, p. 12.
- Nichols, James Michael (February 28, 2016). "The Incredible Story Of Trans Showgirl, Musician And Legend Calpernia Addams", The Huffington Post.
- Hopper, Douglas (March 5, 2006). "Helping Transgender Women Find a New Voice", All Things Considered, National Public Radio.
- Ensler, Eve and Tennyson, Joyce (2005). Vagina Warriors. New York: Bulfinch Press, p. 11. ISBN 978-0-8212-6183-5
- "LesbianAlliance.com interviews DeepStealth's Andrea James", LesbianAlliance.com. Archived April 6, 2004.
- "Teaching resources: Beautiful Daughters", Feminist Teacher, 18(2), 2008, pp. 179–180. JSTOR 40546067
- "Film & TV". Andrea James. 2013-12-19. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
- James, Andrea (2007-10-24). "I'm a TransYouth Family Advocate!". Andrea James. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- James, Andrea (2008-06-11). "Outfest Board of Directors". Andrea James. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- Bashour, Mounir and James, Andrea (July 2, 2009). "Laser Hair Removal", eMedicine.
- James, Andrea (December 18, 2007). "Don't Tick Off Trans". The Advocate.
- Nichols, James Michael (4 July 2016). "This Trans Pioneer Has Been Fighting For The Trans Community For Decades". The Huffington Post.
- ^ Carey, Benedict (August 21, 2007). "Criticism of a Gender Theory, and a Scientist Under Siege", The New York Times.
- ^ Nichols, Margaret (2008). "Dreger on the Bailey Controversy: Lost in the Drama, Missing the Big Picture", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(3), pp. 476–480. PMID 18431629
- James, Andrea (September 2004). "A defining moment in our history: Examining disease models of gender identity" Archived 2017-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, tsroadmap.com.
- ^ Surkan, Kim (2007). "Transsexuals protest academic exploitation", in Lillian Faderman (ed). Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender events, 1848–2006. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, pp. 700–702.
- ^ Dreger, Alice D. (2008). "The Controversy Surrounding the Man Who Would Be Queen: A Case History of the Politics of Science, Identity, and Sex in the Internet Age," Archives of Sexual Behavior, 37(3), pp. 366–421. PMID 18431641 PMC 3170124
- ^ Singal, Jesse (December 30, 2015). "Why Some of the Worst Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals". New York Magazine.
- Zucker, Kenneth J. (June 2008). "Introduction to Dreger (2008) and Peer Commentaries". Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37 (3): 365. doi:10.1007/s10508-007-9300-2. ISSN 0004-0002. PMID 18431642. S2CID 11494895.
- Bailey, Michael J. "Academic McCarthyism", (Archive), Northwestern Chronicle, October 9, 2005.
- Dreger, Alice (2015). Galileo's Middle Finger . Penguin Press. ISBN 9781336009288.
External links
- Official website
- Andrea James at IMDb
- "Andrea James", The Huffington Post.
- James, Andrea (December 3, 2007). "Don't Tick Off Trans". The Advocate.
- 1967 births
- American non-fiction writers
- LGBTQ film producers
- Living people
- American LGBTQ rights activists
- LGBTQ people from Indiana
- Transgender women writers
- American transgender writers
- American transgender actresses
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- Wabash College alumni
- Misplaced Pages people
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- People from Franklin, Indiana
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