Mary McNamara

300px|thumb|Mary McNamara at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con Mary McNamara (born 1963) is an American journalist and television critic for the Los Angeles Times. She won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Quotes Buoyed by the success of the gay and lesbian liberation movement, freed from enforced isolation by changes in the medical and psychiatric establishment, and brought together by the Internet, the transgender community has emerged in the last five years as a new voice in social activism. This voice suggests that, although gender is an identity we are born with, an identity that no amount of social influence can sway, it is too great and varied a force to shoehorn into those ubiquitous boxes marked F and M. While human desires--for love, passion, work, respect, friends, family--remain constant, the way those desires are felt and expressed cannot always be categorized at the moment of birth. Anatomy, as feminists have long argued, is not destiny. Era of the Gender Crosser https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-feb-27-mn-30724-story.html Los Angeles Times 27 February 2001 External links External links Mary McNamara at the Los Angeles Times Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:People from Baltimore Category:Journalists from Maryland Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Critics from the United States