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LISTEN: Understanding Transgender Issues

Monday on Connections, we discussed the suicide of inventor Dr. Essay Anne Vanderbilt and the ramifications for the transgender community.

ESPN’s Grantland.com ran a story about Dr. V earlier this month; she committed suicide after the ESPN writer uncovered her transgender status and said he would write about it.

We welcomed two guests in studio: Scott Fearing, the Executive Director of the Gay Alliance of the Genesee Valley, and Rowan Collins, a student at Nazareth who is transgender. On the phone we spoke with Christina Kahrl, an ESPN baseball writer who is transgender, and who wrote a scathing critique of the Grantland piece. You can listen to the entire program by clicking on the "Listen" link at the top of this story.

Evan Dawson is the host of "Connections with Evan Dawson." He joined WXXI in January 2014 after working at 13WHAM-TV, where he served as morning news anchor. He was hired as a reporter for 13WHAM-TV in 2003 before being promoted to anchor in 2007.