High Points
Reith Lectures with Grayson Perry
Pick TV's 'Ladyboys'.
Question Time
Low points
Everything else LOL
Archives of note
Big Brother Lauren Harries Thread here
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Soap storyline Archives
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And what has been happening to Hayley in Coronation St .
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All the following clips have been archived for evidential purposes should they be needed.
Coronation Street
Hayley has been active this month so rather than list every epissode go straight to the Coronation Street Thread here.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1441&start=10#p16796
So let's begin...
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Ladyboys
'Ladyboy Surgery'
01/10
Pick TV
Following on from the acclaimed documentary exploring the world of Thailand's ladyboys, this thought-provoking series offers further insight into a sector of Thai society that makes up one per cent of the country's population. Find out exactly what it takes to make a man into a woman. Cameras follow two patients as they embark on sex change procedures.
Comment
Good Programme and label context specific as it is about Thailand! For once! (See last Month's log link for more on this)
Ongoing repeat.
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Secret Diary Of a She-Male 5
02/10
Television X
Ladyboys Night Out: Sexy Trannie Annie takes us to a T-Girl club where exotic beauties like the lovely Alison Dale get frisky on the dance floor. Can we have the address please?
Comment
As mentioned in previous logs the only issue here is this is 'Generally listed' and viewable by everyone even if the programme is scrambled.
So using the term 'Trannie Annie' and objectifying transwoman (never transmen) in this way in magazine and digital listings that all the family can read doesn't help our community. It stereotypes the trans community as sex workers. Especially when so few other listings have anything other than medical curiosities, or documentaries about their transition.
I have said it time and time again, we need dramatic roles and comedians. This format will not go away and there is demand.
But maybe they need to rethink their general listings.
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American Dad!
03/10
BBC THREE
8/10. Helping Hands: Stan wants Steve to be popular and goes to desperate measures to make him better and part of the in-crowd at school. Contains adult humour. [S]
Comment
Steve and his dad (Stan) grow breasts with a CIA steroid by accident, and then use them to get popular with the boys.
This is very mixed up, as the cool boys all lust after Steve's breasts? Very odd...
Nevertheless, the biggest issue with this (no pun intended) is the way it is acceptable to touch and fondle a 'man with breasts' compared to a female with breasts.
This plays into the way many transwomen in transition can find they are touched inappropriately or even expected to show them. We have an episode of the US series 'Cops' where women are searched by female officers but a transwoman is fair game as you can see here. http://i1327.photobucket.com/albums/u67 ... 2b5227.jpg
It also has issues around transmen who may still have breast tissue at school, and of course those who are gynecomastic.
Verdict (appropriate legal term in this instance).
Worrying.
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This Morning
03/10
ITV1
Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford present a special 25th anniversary edition of the programme returning to its original Liverpool location. Special guests include the original hosts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan, as well as friend of the show Keith Lemon who presents the weather. Lee Ryan and Charlotte Church discuss how they were discovered on the show, and Coronation Street's Barbara Knox looks back over her 40-year career in Weatherfield.
Comment
25 Year anniversary special from Liverpool.
In their 'best of' montage we see a transgender woman for a moment. But only because she said, "I would like to look like you Holly."
All a bit narcissistic tbh.
In their Game show where they play clips and people have to guess what it was about, they played Lauren Harries doing the Little Britain impression she did about 5 years ago that got her banned, "EH EH EHHH!"
So not exactly bowled over - we have both clips archived btw.
Especially when you consider the sheer amount of transpeople that have been on that show in 25 years! Bus-loads! And this is what they select?
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Celebrity Juice
03/10
ITV2
Keith Lemon continues the tenth series of the outrageous comedy panel show. Fearne Cotton is settled back in as team captain following her maternity break, with fellow presenter Holly Willoughby once again leading the opposing team. This week's guests include Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood and Geordie funnyman Chris Ramsey.
Transcript
Keith Lemon - you are the full package Kym, you can sing, you can act, you can pull a pint (she is a barmaid in the Rovers Return in Coronation Street), you're beautiful! What's the catch?
itvKym Lomas - "I've got a c*ck!"
Keith goes mad laughing and the panel all laugh, inc Holly, who to be fair does not translate this well with her job on 'This Morning', as no doubt she interviews transpeople on that show but here she is showing how funny she thinks that is.
itv
itv
itvKeith - Is your c*ck as big as Holly's cl*t? I am not being rude but you should go to the doctors because it is like a party sausage!
Comment
OK this is all a big laugh, it is something they are completely detached from (literally!), but transpeople who have this issue to face can feel like they are dying inside, and I mean that, many transwomen who have a penis can feel seriously ill over it, and from childhood suicidal.
And interesting that Krm Lomas (AKA Kym Marsh from Hear'Say) works with Julie Hesmondhalgh on Coronation St and has done so for years, yet is ready to mock this issue - that's really proof positive how much of an impact Hayley has had in reality! As would she say that to Hayley's face in reality? No and yet its fine to say it to millions!
This is best compared to this.
Would he joke about breast cancer with the same voracity?
Lets see how that would play out as the feeling to the individual is similar. To have something happen to your body that is beyond your control, that may well result in your death.
Hypothetical
Keith Lemon - you are the full package Kim, you can sing, you can act, you can pull a pint (she is a bar maid in the Rovers Return in Coronation Street), you're beautiful! What's the catch?
Kim Lomas - "I've got Breast Cancer and have had a mastectomy!"
Keith goes mad laughing and the panel all laugh, inc Holly.
Keith - Is your mastectomy scar as big as Holly's? I am not being rude but you should go to the doctors!
He would like face the sack! And that's a pun too... in his world.
Holly would be unable to ever work on 'This Morning' ever again as this would alienate her entire female audience. Yet she can do this and remember her husband produces this show, and she can happily interview transpeople the next day and that's fine - it is not fine Holly!
This is the problem, until they see being trans as more than a good laugh, this will continue.
Being trans is one of the hardest things to do in life, it is soul-destroying, challenging, life threatening, dangerous, depressing and many do not make it to transition because they kill themselves! This is NOT funny! However, There are positives and some do make it through, some marry and live and deal with their burden. But the abuse does not leave them, as they continue to face triggering statements and comments for the rest of their lives. This is abusing people who are suffering, most put on a brave face, as they have had to mask this pain all their lives for fear of discovery. And then look at this reaction.
itvThats how funny this is!
It may well be funny when you are distanced from it, like most things can be. But it is not if you are the suffering party, it makes the experience of this nothing short of mocking the afflicted.
When in reality this is actually soul-destroying to the point of no longer wanting to exist!
And that is NOT funny!
Kim Lomas to my knowledge is a cisgender female who has given birth, and as a result cannot make these claims unless it is for humour. She has no ownership of this space to mock. It is therefore 'othering' as she knows this to be the case and is making 'transphobia by proxy', you can read that here.
SEE- TRANSPHOBIA BY PROXY
http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=3000
Sympathy is in short supply for transpeople, I found it interesting that last week when they had Lauren Harries appear Keith (Leigh) didn't mention this topic. And this is a serious issue. It shows that if television worked a little harder in creating transgender stars that there would be at least some balance in these shows.
But again in the transperson's absence it is open season once more!
This show is the one blight on ITV's recovery from transphobia to make their channel ethical and balanced!
Nasty, hateful and cruel to trans viewers.
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Ladyboy Training 5
04/10
Television X
Stunning 18+ girlie boy Holly joins forces with the amazing Keisha Kane to take on lucky stud Damien in a session that has to be seen to be believed.
Comment
Hmmm... as always the content maybe scrambled but the general public listings are not.
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The Wright Stuff
04/10
Channel 5
Lively magazine show in which Matthew Wright and guests discuss the topical issues of the day.
Comment
Interesting, news story from the Sum was discussed about, "WHAT IS YOU SEXUALITY?"
The panelist reads out the following from the newspaper...
"They say a 180,000 of us maybe transsexual or 'weirdos' which they shouldn't say."
Matthew - Angrily - Weirdos? Thats nice! (meaning thats nice in a sarcastic tone shaking his head).
Panelist - No I think they mean't like cars and hoovers etc...
Matthew - Ok...
Here again he jumps to the defence of the transgender community. He simply will not tolerate any nonsense in this area. And this is why he is so rated by Transgenderzone.com as a presenter every year in our transtvawards!
see http://www.transtvawards.com/ He reviews the papers and is the first to set people straight if it is about trans in the press, by doing so on national television. I cannot imagine how damaging trans press stories would be without filters like his.
Here at Trangender Zone we never take anything as read. Proof is everything and verifiable data is key that can be checked and double checked by everyone. People earn our awards!
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Woman's Hour
04/10
BBC Radio 4
Transgender icon April Ashley's art exhibition; Wendy Holden talks about letting go of your children when they go to university; heart defects in babies. Sheila McClennon presents.
37mins in
Comment
Opens with the usual misinformation lazily sourced - "first to have GRS"[SIC] - Not by at least a decade in the UK, and even then she didn't have treatment in the UK.
She continues to trade on this, after all, who remembers the second or 20th? She got the idea of having surgery from friends she worked with in Paris who had already had it in Casablanca.
However before her it was being carried out in Sweden in the 50s and in the UK in the late 40s. Of course the 'firsts' modern day versions as we know ir were in the late 1920s and I had to personally rectify this data as it was incorrect online eveyone else cited Lillie Elbe before I intervened. 'Dora R' was the first to my knowledge (with more modern survivable techniques) and she was treated in Berlin in 1929. Of course this is all nonsense really, as there are examples of GRS as far back as Ancient Rome and before.
April - about her surgeon, "He said I was the most perfect specimen he had have ever seen!"
Interviewer - "You are so regal...Tirelessly campaigning..."
and the word "Icon" was bandied about. Seriously? Give me strength! "Infamous" maybe a better line?
She is good looking even now there is little doubting that, and her cut-glass accent (that would give the Queen a run for her money) belies her scouser roots
but the way she is being spoken about and praised by journalists is creating an urban myth and rewriting history. We are all in the same boat, she prayed to be a girl as a kid, so did many a transchild - they still do. What makes he special? Being pretty? Some things never change.
All a bit narcissistic and not my cup of tea. It just feels that she is seen as the 'first transsexual' who ever was 'created' in the UK. It is important we stop this misinformation - I mean she didn't even have her surgery in the UK anyway. And her exhibition is on in the Museum of Liverpool until next September! Why?! I think perhaps rather than an MBE it would have been more apt to have given her the 'LĂ©gion d'honneur'
She takes the credit for many things and yet few can actually list them, apart from being born with a pretty face. Having a good time in Paris and setting the trans community in legal limbo for 40 years! And most of the top activists (I have asked beyond my social circle btw, some who may surprise you have had the same reaction - they asked me not to publicise their comments) struggle to define what her MBE was awarded for. I suggest its perhaps a state apology and that's about it. And 'who you know' helps.
It was a case of her leaving the country when the chips were down and coming back when the activism was done or when there was something in it for her, aging is a better bet in the UK with the NHS of course, or to collect her gong, be interviewed - whilst the true grafters go ignored. I have applied for an MBE for someone who truly has made a MASSIVE contribution, and proveable, the person I nominated has a list of activism that is so great it almost looked like it was impossible and you had to have a double take, and has been supported by our top activists, and a gong is very slow in coming if at all - that's a disgrace! And tarnishes the whole awards process. And angers many, including myself who cannot understand the logic of April getting one when this other person has truly grafted and changed our community for the better (not the worst), and yet is humble enough to even decline it.
This is quite a common issue with transpeople who get well known, they often speak about how they now 'dedicate their lives to our community' when interviewed, I hear it all the time... but when you actually follow them up they have better things to do, or are cashing in on their notoriety. And it is usually what is in it for them more than selfless sacrifice. Selfies, and social networking doesn't help. Best way to test this theory is to simply google the name of someone on Google images and see how many photos there are.
All I would say is if she had a face like a bag of spanners would anybody care? And that takes us back to Trans-Currency once more. If you pass as a woman and have liaisons with famous people you are 'worthy' of national recognition and an exhibition, and if you don't you are a monster to be mocked by the media.
She got an MBE for being pretty - well done. You will note there are very few if any photos or videos of her actually doing something selfless for others, usually it is telling the same story about herself over and over. I would be more inclined to award it had she not been attractive and had to endure life in the UK as a plain Jane, working away for change, with no escape to luxury and glamour. And yet there were many transwomen like that around at the time she bolted, their names now forgotten. And that's a real shame!
Don't get me wrong, she was actually very lucky for a transwoman and took advantage of it, even today this still applies. Despite her apparent hardships, they fade into insignificance compared to the alternatives most faced.
But I think she needs to be a little more humble. Maybe she needs to adjust her boasts a little at least so they are factually correct.
Trans-currency Media and Celebrity.
http://blog.transgenderzone.com/?p=1043
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8 Out of 10 Cats
04/10
Channel 4
SHOW PROGRAMME INFO
Jimmy Carr hosts the topical comedy panel game with team captains Sean Lock and Jon Richardson. Sean and Jon are joined in their quest to uncover the public's most popular taking points by Jack Dee, Steve Jones, David O'Doherty and Jamelia.
Comment
Here we go again, it is like f*cking Ground Hog Day.
Channel 4 Promises are now less than worthless.
Their Memorandum of Understanding is in tatters.
In under 2 minutes we have this opening joke in the opening show of the new series.
Sad - just sad.
And clearly Channel 4 are untouchable, unflinchable, and are never going to change.
I think it is time to just wash our hands of any negotiations and pull out of any agreements, and maybe even tear up their MOU.
Jimmy Carr - 20% of travellers claim to be members of the mile high club! I once had a near miss on a flight to Thailand! Sorry, not near miss, pre-op transsexual. (Near'ly' a miss).
Channel4
Channel4
Channel4FFS it don't get much worse than this, pre-op Transsexual, laughing at transpeople for just existing, describing someone pre-op as not quite a miss. Misgendering.
WHAT is going on?
This is outrageous!
What will be done? Nothing can be it seems - they take no notice.
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My Tattoo Addiction
04/10
4seven
This episode meets people whose body art has a profound effect on their lives, from Mark's deliberately provocative photo-realist tattoos to Joanne's reminder of her previous life as a man. [AD,S]
Comment
Interesting look at the folly of tattoos really. As no one really came out of this looking good apart from the woman who had her nipples tattooed on after breast reconstruction. Mostly it was young people on holiday getting drunk and being taken advantage off - as that is what it was!
There should be a rule that they must be sober or have a breathalyser test before they can agree to this. It would not be allowed in medicine so why with this?
That said, if you have the money and a true artist, then it can be interesting, but unlike a painting you can sell, this you are stuck with. I am not a big fan of tattoos as you can probably guess but that's just my opinion and a fair one I think. I do not have any that's for sure! The risk of infection alone with dirty needles should be enough to stop people.
One person had 'Woody' who is a good artist it is true, paint Adolf Hitler holding a gas bill. I think he is trying to be Banksy. But it doesn't really work.
So the transperson had this tattoo and was married with kids and now wants it covered over with another to make her more feminine - lasered-off may have been better? The replacement was a huge inked hairdo on a woman showing her breasts... is that more feminine? I don't really know enough about the subject - but not my cup of tea.
I feel the tattooing is a bit of a spurious means to get a documentary going by another avenue. A bit like having a documentary about people who own green doors or red Ford Fiestas - where does it end?
So the story quickly went along the usual transgender documentary pathway, it was OK. And its better to be included in something like this than be excluded of course, but it is yet another cheap documentary that is trying to show Channel 4 as being transpositive? When in the next breath they are making Pre-op transsexual Jokes on '8 Out of 10 Cats'.
I think they are a little lost and the case of Left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
When they commission a drama with a transsexual in a supporting role - let me know. As until then this still is not good enough and I have tonnes of documentaries like this in our archives that if you remove the tattooing link are identical - that are like Ground Hog Day.
Channel 4
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Cops
04/10
Movie Mix
Another airing of the sexual inappropriate search of a transwoman.
moviemixI dip in and out of Cops as and when purely because of time covering old news, but as the thread previously created shows, you can kinda take it as read they just humiliate transpeople in that show for ratings!
see
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3842
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Family Guy
04/10
BBC THREE
Valentine's Day in Quahog: Subversive animated comedy about the trials and tribulations of family life. On Valentine's Day, Meg goes on a date with a guy she met online. Contains adult humour. [S]
Unfortunate comment regarding Quagmire's 'dad'.
see more
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3962
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Run, Fat Boy, Run
05/10
E4+1
Simon Pegg/Thandie Newton/Hank Azaria/Dylan Moran/India de Beaufort/Stephen Merchant;David Schwimmer;;
Comment
Easier to send you here
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1834
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My Tattoo Addiction
06/10
4seven
Repeat of the show see:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3976
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New- Family Guy
06/10
BBC THREE
Chris Cross: Animated comedy. When Meg catches Chris stealing money from Lois's purse, she makes him do her chores. Contains adult humour. [S]
Comment
Transgender gag -
Chris - That's it! I am getting those sneakers - after all shoes make the man!
Cut-away to running track and runner in high heels -
Starter - Gentlemen take you marks!
Running - hobbles along mincing and camp voiced - "I'm a different kind of winner!"
Comment
Yet another trans gag - it is one a week in this new series on the BBC - this is probably their most popular cartoon, it is like 'Friends' was on Channel 4 - so will the BBC ever vet anything transphoic from it's content NOT A CHANCE and thats why the BBC are for the most part useless and abusive.
It at first glance seem harmless - well it is less harmful than most of their efforts, but if we look again.
Misgendering, and belittling. Laughing at a 'man' in high feels. Why would a man' be wearing high heels? One could argue its a cartoon get over it! But I have seen the same laughter, pointing and humiliation of transwomen, who may not pass socially in the gender they present. After all Eddie Izzard wheres heels even in boy mode.
Again not as bad as usual as there is space to say its the wrong footware, but then why say, "I'm a different kind of winner?"
Hmmmm....
It just reminded me of the playground where a kid is walking like someone disabled making grunting noises behind another kid using a wheelchair for laughs.
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Ladyboys
'Doing It For Themselves'
06/10
Pick TV
Doing It For Themselves - Following on from the acclaimed documentary exploring the world of Thailand's ladyboys, this thought-provoking series offers further insight into a sector of Thai society that makes up one per cent of the country's population. This final episode soars into the skies with PC Air, the world's first airline to hire ladyboy stewardesses. We also catch up with Nok, who has a life-changing decision to make.
Comment
Good!
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Staying In with Greg and Russell
09/10
BBC THREE
3/8. Greg James and Russell Kane invite celebrity guests over to their flat for chat and entertainment. Conor Maynard drops by and performs his new single. Contains some strong language. [S]
The BBC Presenters asked this question - Gregg and Russel did not have to!
Russell - You were a drag queen dancer is that right?
Scissor Sisters Ana Matronic - Yes! When I lived in San Fransisco! I was part of regular performers at a place called tranny shack!
Russell shows a picture of her in a black bra and heels.
Ana - Interestingly that was blow job night!
Greg - what happens on Blow Job night?
Ana - The BIG LOAD contest!
Greg - A big Load contest?
Ana - with zeal - oh yeah!
Greg - whose measuring this?
Ana - they spunked into plastic bags and they are like holding it up!
Stacey Solemon - Oh my God!
Russell - who has got the best potential out of me and greg to be a drag queen then?
Comment
We all know about the SS and their one hit wonder 'I don't feel like dancin' - thats about it really?
Scissor Sisters are an American pop group formed in 2001. "Spawned by the scuzzy, gay nightlife scene of New York,"
The name of the band is a sexual act.
And Ana Lynch or 'Ana Matronic' did work as a drag dancer - how does that work? In gay clubs.
However this is a perfect example of Gay licence and even that is by proxy as she says she is not gay - so a story about a story about a story... http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=2976 in action. And transphobia by proxy. See
http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=3000
She is not trans, so may have 'history' with the community but has no ownership of the label. In the same way a white guy with black mates will get into trouble saying 'ma n*ga'.
However here is a case of it being seen as fair game - it is not.
This is a bit more complicated than the usual trans comments as it is her (rather selective anecdote said just to shock) lived experience. Nevertheless, repeating this on the BBC and not removing it has done untold damage to our community yet again.
This is a real issue here!
First they are blurring hard core sexual practices, with drag and the term tranny.
Tranny is seen in the UK as transgender - NOT DRAG! Drag is left at the stage door for the most part unless they are walking to work. So it has left (pun intended) a bitter taste in the mouth!.
The term Tranny Shack has been adopted by many gay nights in towns. Tranny night, and tranny this and tranny that, usually the performers will accept any label to earn a crust. The owners of the establishments are rarely trans, and if they are they are sell-outs to the dollar or pound. As they know the damage the label causes, but there is too much money in its use for them to stop! Especially in porn! An example of that is the term Tranny on google images. Many pimps and sex traffikers use the term to sell their products.
Nuff said!
If she danced in a bar called 'The n*gger shack' would she be so happy to say it today? And if she did so would the BBC bleep or edit it out? Of course they would it goes without saying!
All I want is the same respect for our community.
The presenters already knew what she would answer as they have prompts and research. so its just another excuse by the BBC to try and get away with it.
Well they didn't!
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Celebrity Juice
10/10
ITV2
Keith Lemon continues the tenth series of the outrageous comedy panel show. Fearne Cotton is settled back in as team captain following her maternity break, with fellow presenter Holly Willoughby once again leading the opposing team.
Comment
A week off? Not a chance.
About Fearne Cotton - "she sits there scratching her balls!"
Transphobia by Proxy! Stay tuned it happens next week too!
http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=3000
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Loose Women
11/10
ITV1
Dame Edna Everage joins Carol Vorderman, Denise Welch and Sherrie Hewson on today's show.
Comment
Drag Act Dame Edna AKA Barrie Humphries is back to top up his pension scheme.
Hurry up and retire - we see the difference in this man's act when we compare his other character 'Sir Les Patterson' who never really had the same global appeal. What is the variable? The dress, what else?
Annoying and dated. If Barrie and Christopher Biggins moved to a desert Island that would help a little.
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New - Celebrity Wedding Planner
11/10
Channel 5
Pete Burns and John McCririck: New documentary series. John McCririck and Pete Burns plan the wedding of Astra and Anthony from Doncaster, who have a traditional ceremony in mind. [S]
Comment
This was a documentary, but in actuality it unintentionally(?) turned out to be one of the funniest things I have seen this year. Another pat on the back for Channel 5!
Pete is just a funny guy, a nightmare, but funny, he is clearly gender-variant, but identifies as a gay man.
Nevertheless there are transissues at play here and thus deserves a mention - worth watching!
Couple Pete with Lauren Harries and give them their own chat show before someone else does!
I have suggested this for years and still think I have something!
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8 Out of 10 Cats
11/10
Channel 4
Jimmy Carr hosts the comedy panel game with team captains Sean Lock and Jon Richardson. Sean and Jon are joined by Richard Hammond, Carol Vorderman, Paul Foot and Matt Forde.
Comment
Worst thing about living alone?
Sean Lock - AGAIN - Builds up to another trans gag - this man is a nuisance and a Channel 4 staple. Only the other day we reported on him laughing with Alan Carr about trans surgery.
This week he says:
Sean Lock - The worse thing about living alone is only being able to wear your own clothes! There is not another like bank of clothes! Like to dip into. If the situation arises that you'd need to. Paul foot then picks up on this set-up.
Paul Foot beside him - Yeah if you like wearing women's clothes, in the day.
Sean Lock - WOW WOW WOW I didn't mean that!
(LAUGHTER)
Paul Foot - you might say that...
Sean Lock - not on television I don't.
Paul Foot - you could say it is part of a loving heterosexual relationship, it is just something I like doing, when my wife's out sort of thing.
Sean Lock - Who told you that?
Paul Foot - It is fairly obvious!
(MORE LAUGHTER)
Comment
Lets break this down.
This is a constant in comedy - "something I do" or "he does at the weekends" seems to be one of the original transphbic jokes ever, and has been said and is continually said when men talk about anything femme on telly.
"Paul Foot beside him - Yeah if you like wearing women's clothes, in the day."
It is interesting that this is automatically assumed to be a transgender issue, I mean no one has considered that the person maybe a woman!"
Sean's denial and - WOW WOW WOW at the very suggestion, is the pub bravado that many trans have to deal with.
"Paul Foot - you could say it is part of a loving heterosexual relationship, it is just something I like doing, when my wife's out sort of thing."
Paul maybe thinking he is being PC but he is in fact stereotyping here. That it is OK to wear 'women's clothes' if it is part of a heterosexual relationship and something you do when the wife is out.
This is a very dated view of trans life, this may have been his education in the 80s, but it has that pipe and slippers and wig kinda undertone. He mention's 'the wife'. What about a husband? It all gets a series of laughs. Again why? What is funny about getting dressed? They are laughing at an image in their heads conjured up by the comics, of some sad 'man' who's wife goes out and 'he' has to wear her dress and sit in a chair.
This is just awful again. And damaging. Why doesn't Sean Lock shut up for a year or two about trans issues and give us a break. He has a terrible track record with transphobic comments - perhaps the worst on television. Channel 4 too!
Another nail in their MOU promises to stop this.
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Futurama
'Beast with a Billion Backs'
12/10
Pick TV
Feature-length episode of the futuristic cartoon comedy. Fry, Leela and Bender tackle a revolting, planet-sized monster armed with tentacles and amorous intentions.
Comment
Futurama won our best animation award last year and for good reason, check out the http://www.transgendertelevisionawards.com page to see what I mean and why.
This episode was notable because of the transgender pronoun gag that is as follows...
In this older one we see Fry become the leader of a new faith. Speaking for the alien he says,
"The monster's name is Yivo, lover of all things male and female, but Yivo has no gender! So Yivo has proclaimed instead of he or she, we are to use the word 'Sklee'." Instead off her or him we are to use the word 'Sklim' or 'Skler!'." Hermes retorts, "Phew! I've been sweating over the nomenclature all week!"
Funny! And shows that with a little thought writers can make inoffensive funny gags in this way.
(Image Pick TV/FOX).Clever writing
And kinda funny as that's the way it is going with pronouns LOL! 
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Bad Education
12/10
BBC THREE
6/6. Fundraiser: Abbey Grove is plunged into financial ruin. Can Alfie come up with a plan to save it? Can he stop Miss Gulliver leaving? Contains adult humour. [AD,S]
Jack Whitehall's character speaks to the kitchen staff.
bbc"And my mate here! Iggy Pop, this guy is...."
His female colleague butts in...
"...one of the nicest WOMEN! I have ever worked with!"
Jack - Looks frightened and responds - huhuhuhooooooshhhh....
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Jack has done his fair share of transphobia in the past - see 'Mock The Week'.
However he has a habit of being part of it in his sitcoms too. Tranny last series. This series, we had stereotyping when it was assumed a member of staff was trans - who was not.
And a few other 'gags'.
This one is misgendering for laughs.
Misgendering anyone is bad but if this is done for a laugh. Hahaha he looks like a woman or she looks like a man. Could have been written better.
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UK Border Force
13/10
Pick TV
Observational documentary series. Officers stop a Nigerian with a forged passport who insists he is 15 years old. A transgendered woman suffering from terminal cancer and with just $10 to her name finds out if she qualifies to get into the country. A criminal is caught in Calais.
Comment
A regular repeat that does the rounds. These fly-on-the-wall docu shows do tend to jump for joy when anyone gender variant passes through customs. Unfortunately.
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Ladyboys
'Going the Distance'
13/10
Pick TV
Second series of the intriguing and, at times, emotional documentary that travels to Thailand to explore the world of male-to-female transgender persons. This opening episode explores the relationships between British ex-pats who have left their families, friends and careers to start afresh with their ladyboy lovers. The cameras follow a former university lecturer who has set up home with his transgender lover. Life seems sweet, but they have yet to convince the teacher's son.
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Repeated often but can't deny its not a good programme.
If there was one minor issue it would be it kinda focuses too much on the pretty girls - what about the rest?
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The Simpsons
'Any Given Sundance'
14/10
Channel 4
Lisa makes a candid documentary about life in the Simpson household. Her film is a success at the Sundance Film Festival, but turns her family into national hate figures.
Comment
Marge walks in on a trans film.
Marge is shocked and distressed to see a cross-dresser applying make-up in a movie.
Nothing to report other than the joke is she sees the movie title 'Regularsville' and she then says when she leaves in a panic, "I get it(!), every movie is the opposite to what it means." So we can glean from that that a transgender person is 'irregular'?
Being picky but nevertheless!
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Top Gear
14/10
Dave
Motoring magazine presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. This week, who can get to the ski slopes first - Jeremy by road in a Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, or James and Richard by air? A rally car goes head to head with a bobsleigh and this edition's 'Star in a Reasonably Priced Car' is Eddie Izzard.
Comment
Not what you might think - actually quite positive - TG also had an episode where they had to collect a Cher impersonator from Las Vegas in a Range Rover Vogue after testing it in the desert. In this episode Eddie Izzard drives around the track. All very nice. Repeat of course. Original Air Date 19/12/2004. Clarkson had brown hair in this
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Bizarre Animal ER
14/10
Really
Documentary series featuring the oddest animal accidents and strangest pet problems from all corners of the UK - from domestic pets and farmyard animals injured in unusual circumstances to weird emergencies experienced by wildlife - and the most surprising stories of animal misadventure. A lizard laying an egg suffers a prolapse, there's eye-watering surgery when vets perform a sex change on a tom cat, and a hedgehog undergoes plastic surgery after its face is ripped off in a cat attack.
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Silly but 'sex-change' is used
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The Reith Lectures
Grayson Perry
15/10
BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d ... e#b00sj965
Comment
Funny and smart, and Grayson didn't look bad either
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New - Sweat the Small Stuff
15/10
BBC THREE
New series. 1/8. Panel show with Nick Grimshaw, captains Rochelle Humes and Melvin Odoom, plus Conor Maynard, Seann Walsh, Matt Richardson and Jacqueline Jossa. Contains some strong language. [S]
Comment
Nick asks the panel if a series of members of the public in the street if they wear their partner's clothes.
bbcMost were shocked. They all laughed.
One said he did and the panel were aghast.
Another panelist pictured said. "No I am not that Kinky."
They all laughed!
bbcTrivia - Nick Grimshaw is no stranger to using the term Tranny on air he used it on his previous job on T4. And on the left of the panel is Seann Walsh who last month hosted some of the most transphobic content is his 'Seann Walsh's Late Night Comedy' again on BBC THREE. As time goes on we build little 'records' on everybody.
BBC Three seem commission bit of transgender stuff (Jakie Green Beauty Queen etc) as some pay off for all this other junk. Why bother asking this question at all?
You couldn't justify racism this way so why transphobia?
And being described as 'Kinky' and then laughing is not helpful either, the BBC are publishing this.
bbcKinky is associated with sexual fetishism and can range into to the paraphilic.
Hmmmm... It is treated like a 'game' - it can be. But many transpeople question this as a control. In other words, if it were totally socially acceptable to 'cross-dress' would this just continue out of the bedroom and into the workplace? Is its association with sex the only way some can make an excuse for it in private. Complex issues best avoided by asking something else. And even then do not laugh at it ffs! No wonder so many asked felt insulted or ashamed!
One person asked did say they did and 'it was nice' and the audience went OOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! YUK!!!!
Grimshaw says, "Naughty James very naughty."
I wonder if James was from central casting, in any case they all laughed and made it 'naughty' again this is 'shame'. Just stop!
The title of this show is 'Sweat the small stuff' being trans or being gender-variant in how you dress is one of the biggest issues in a person's life, so that belittles the topic and that's probably the worse thing of all!
This reaction stops people coming out, as here is an example of what people think of you! You are either a laughing stock or a pervert - OR BOTH!
Alan Carr later does something similar regarding Alex Reid on Channel 4, laughing at someone who has an 'alternative identity' Roxanne - but again links it with sex and perversion for a laugh.
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This Morning
'The night I tried to cut off my penis'
17/10
ITV1
Phillip Schofield Voice Over -
"Kirsty Cass knew she was different from the age of five but she was born a boy and was known as 'Andy' until five years ago. However, after 40 years suppressing her feelings, getting married to a woman and having a child, Kirsty found herself taking drastic action. Depressed and drunk, Kirsty saw only one way out of her troubles; she took a Stanley knife to her penis and tried to cut it off. Unable to finish 'the job' and almost bleeding to death in the process, Kirsty was rushed to hospital where her penis was reattached. Seeing this moment as a turning point, Kirsty has since then lived her life as a woman – and in March this year she underwent gender reassignment surgery to finally become the woman she always dreamed of being."
Kirsty said of being diagnosed after the incident: “I think it was good when I actually heard the psychiatrist say gender dysphoria. Basically they summed up who I was, and what I was going through – in the way that there was help there.
“That’s what made a difference to me. Before I didn’t think there was help.”
"Today, she joined us on This Morning to tell us about her experience."
Comment
I have been accused of sitting here being a media doom mongor! But this is not actually true, as UK media gives me very little alternatives unfortunately!
It was OK and the same story from 3 years earlier. I was more interested in how she had changed as back then she was early in transition. Also a better age demographic for once. Trans do not disappear after 30!
Kirsty Cass told the same story here -
Live with Gabby
12/10
Channel 5
Gabby interviews 'DIY Sex change' Kirsty Cass
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-storie ... -23450231/
Maybe if ITV1 knew they would not have booked her.
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