User:Jenova20/Transphobia in the media
Useful resources:
- If you're looking for more material for the article, Leveson's full report (around page 660) is very critical of press coverage of trans issues. Sceptre (talk) 01:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
- Levenson Inquiry Trans material
- Common Journalism mistakes and biases used
Transgender
[edit]Trans Media Watch:end "character assassination" of trans people
The Sun
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Article published on 8th January 2012. Observer and Guadian are "sister" papers. Suzanne Moore article in the New Statesman offendsGuardian columnist Suzanne Moore refuses to apologise after accusations of transphobic articleForced to leave Twitter after backlashJulie Burchill column withdrawn from Observer after backlash for defending MooreMail Online's slant/summaryMoore apologisesGuardian columnist Julie Bindel defends Moore and draws criticism, while Lynne Featherstone, MP, calls for Julie Burchill and Observer editor to be sackedProtests planned against Transphobia of The Guardian and The ObserverShe later threatens to sue Pink News for mentioning her in a story about a Brazilian Transexual murderProtests take placePCC to investigate Burchill articleObeserver's readers' editor Stephen Pritchard "I saw the piece when it arrived on Saturday morning but hesitated to suggest changes (my role as readers’ editor is not to intervene in advance of publication). That’s something I now regret.”"
Fox News + Daily Mail
[edit]- "Fox News criticised for using a photo of Mrs Doubtfire for trans health story"
- "Fox News host Bill O’Reilly mocks trans prisoner’s appearance and calls her ‘he’"
- Daily Mail repeats a false story about a transgender student in Colorado "harassing female students in the girls room.". Fox News continues to cite the story as legitimate news within the station's continual war on transgender individuals"
Films
[edit]- 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
[edit]Advertising
[edit]- Advert showing a woman competing with a transgender woman in a bathroom mirror pulled after complaints.[3]
- Meteor mobile advert criticised and banned by the Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI).[7][8]
Other
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/02/16/exclusive-the-sun-defends-public-call-for-trans-fathers-identity/
- ^ http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/07/09/newspaper-declines-to-apologise-for-terminology-in-intersex-story/
- ^ http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/01/03/new-zealand-company-pulls-transphobic-advert/
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-18075633
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2145175/Paddy-Power-ad-ruled-offensive-transsexuals-asking-race-ladies-stallions-mares.html
- ^ http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/05/16/regulator-paddy-power-ad-which-asked-viewers-to-spot-the-trans-lady-was-offensive/
- ^ http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/trans-used-cheap-laughs-irish-tv-advert161012
- ^ http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/12/21/ireland-mobile-phone-advert-deemed-transphobic-by-media-watchdog/