User:Jenova20/Transphobia in the media

Useful resources:

Transgender

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Trans Media Watch:end "character assassination" of trans people

The Sun

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  • Complaints that The Sun is hunting down a transexual man who fathered a child by harrassing people and organisations "in the public interest" and has breached the Editors’ Code of Conduct in four separate ways.[1]

The Guardian / Observer

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Fox News + Daily Mail

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Films

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  • Ticked-off Trannies with Knives was protested when it premiered by GLSEN for portraying false images of the struggles of the Transgender community and comflating them with drag. The file portrayed them as "rediculous caricatures of 'real women'" This is often considered offensive because before the 1980's the only way trans people were ever portrayed on television and film were as violent murderers, psychopaths and mentally unstable people, with Hannibal being an example.

The People

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  • [1] - following older story link leads to the entire thing[2]

Advertising

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  • Advert showing a woman competing with a transgender woman in a bathroom mirror pulled after complaints.[3]
  • Paddy Power advert, "Guess the Stallions from the Mares", called offensive.[4][5][6]
  • Meteor mobile advert criticised and banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI).[7][8]

Other

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References

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