Does Appearing on Reality TV Qualify as Activism?
Rich Juzwiak · 04/06/16 03:26PMLast night’s episode of Friday Night Tykes: Steel Country, Esquire Network’s reality show about elementary-school aged kids who play football, featured a gender-fluid 8-year-old from Monaca, Pennsylvania, who sometimes goes by Abby, and sometimes by Adam. The storyline, however, featured very little direct input from Abby/Adam—the discussion of the kid’s gender fluidity came almost entirely from Abby/Adam’s mother, Sarah Markusic.