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BANFF 2015: Who are we? Or will Silicon Valley buy out Hollywood?

BANFF - Identity figured prominently as Monday took shape at the 2015 Banff World Media Festival.Jill Soloway, creator of Transparent, provided her own version of the paradox of plenty in the digital age. Apparently, trans exclusionary radical feminists, TERFs for short, are taking considerable exception to transgender glamorizations such as those on her show, she said.Even The New York Times has engaged this latest bits and bytes controversy, with articles claiming that trans-gendered men who become women have never experienced the anxieties and oppression of menstrual periods, unwanted pregnancies or the other challenges of growing up as a girl.But what...