12 Facts About Andrea James

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Andrea Jean James was born on January 16,1967 and is an American transgender rights activist, film producer, and blogger.

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Andrea James became involved in consumer activism, with an interest in medical and academic fraud.

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Andrea James moved to Los Angeles in 2003 and co-founded Deep Stealth Productions with her roommate, author and entertainer Calpernia Addams, to create content marketed to transgender people.

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Andrea James was a co-producer of and appeared in Beautiful Daughters, a documentary film about the event.

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Andrea James was a consulting producer for, and appeared in, the reality-dating television series Transamerican Love Story on the Logo digital channel in 2008.

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Andrea James was appointed in 2007 to the Board of Directors of TransYouth Family Allies, a nonprofit that supports transgender youth and their families, and in 2008 to the Board of Directors of Outfest, where she was involved in the restoration of the documentary Queens at Heart.

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Andrea James directed the 2015 Showtime concert film Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy.

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Andrea James writes about consumer rights, technology, pop culture, and LGBT rights.

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Andrea James has contributed to Boing Boing, QuackWatch, eMedicine, The Advocate, The Huffington Post and Wikipedia.

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Andrea James argued that the book is a cure narrative, framed by one case report about a six-year-old child, that exemplifies the academic exploitation of transgender people.

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Bailey accused her of harassment, as did Alice Dreger, a colleague of Bailey's at Northwestern University; Dreger tried to stop Andrea James from speaking at the campus about the controversy.

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Andrea James responded that the page was intended to echo what she saw as Bailey's disrespect toward gender variant children.