So here we go again, what is broadcast in the UK reflects on you as a transperson. Every month it is a case of spot
the positives. Almost all television featuring anything remotely associated with transpeople is negative, comical
or are negative stereotypes.
High Points
Eddie Izzard in a few shows.
Low points
Man Down Channel 4
Don't forget our 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All the following clips have been archived for evidential purposes should they be needed.
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The Change
01/11
BBC Radio 4 Ex
Sitcom about a troubled hormonal wife and a transvestite husband. Stars Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison. From
November 2001. Episode 1 of 6.
Comment
The Change is back! YAY - AGAIN! I remember archiving this when it first came out and sent a copy with photos of the recordings to the Beaumont Library.
'The Change' was a Radio comedy Drama written about a cross-dressing husband and the impact it had on the family and friends. The Beaumont Society and Women of the Beaumont Society"WOBS" were heavily involved.
Diane A of WOBS even had a speaking part in the recording as a helpline advisor. It is running again on Radio 4 Extra. It comes around every so often but was made in 2001! That's the BBBC for you, cutting edge eh?
So don't be fooled this is some progress from campaigning now
Repeated again on The 02/11.
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Fool Britannia
02/11
itv1
6:30pm, Saturday 2 November 2013 (Important note here that it is pre watershed and classified as family viewing).
Duration: 30 minutes
Series 2 • Episode 5
Fool Britannia Armed with a truckload of hidden cameras and devious disguises, no one is safe as comedian Dom Joly unleashes a host of brand new characters and pranks across the UK.
Dom Joly presents more wind-ups and pranks. A hapless prison officer keeps losing his prisoners, and a prospective bridesmaid is not too happy with her sister's wedding theme.
Comment
The rather uncomfortable situation where another (this was also done in Channel 4's I'm Spasticus') blind man has a trans date. And has to asks a stranger about the transperson.
This allows for comedy and objectification of the transperson in their absence. Whilst a laughter track is played.
Disgraceful! I have it archived in full.
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8 Out of 10 Cats
04/11
4 Music
Tim Minchin 'Trannies' - no point in going into detail here read this link
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Bouncers
7/11
Channel 4
Queen Street is the hub of Colchester's late-night drinking scene. This episode of the documentary series follows five bouncers who work along this strip, at Silk Road, TP's Sports Bar and the kebab shop. Bouncing is a profession of two halves: the old school and the new school. The job became licensed in 2001, but some bouncers still remember the 'good old days'.
Full Review
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4043
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Ladyboys
03/11
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. Revisit the highlights of the first series, as the eye-opening documentary joins Thailand's most successful transgender entrepreneur on the campaign trail for equal rights.
Comment
Good - and the term 'Ladyboy' is used in context correctly!
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8 Out of 10 Cats Uncut
04/11
4Music
Jimmy Carr hosts an extended edition of the comedy show in which celebrity panelists discuss the findings of opinion polls on wacky or trivial topics.
Comment
Full Review
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4044
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Lorraine
04/11
ITV1
The news that a potential terrorist had escaped custody by wearing a Burkha in a Mosque led to a number of jokes and comments about cross-dressing as a fraudulent act.
It begs the question, why is it when any man mentions or is wearing what are seen as women's clothes, its a laugh and never taken seriously. Not about the means of escape which is obvious in this instance but the associations.
Maybe one day our society will ignore this issue.
That said Rough Copy (X-FACTOR) wore skirts or 'overlays' and even got stick elsewhere for that - society FFS grow-up! One culprit of this is presenter Stephen Mulhern - more on him later!
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This Morning
04/11
ITV1
Daytime Magazine Show
Comment
This was interesting and demonstrates a master at work! Like Matthew Wright Phillip Schofield has become very self-aware regarding trans issues over the years. Except for a few slip-ups we can see right here the difference between someone who has really still not quite grasped what they are saying and an older presenter who immediately can see the audience reaction - here is the simple exchange. And look at the faces!
Stephen Mulhern (he again will be in this thread later!) Not a great month for him.
The Topic is about 'Wardobing', that is taking a dress back to a store after wearing it for one night or to a job interview.
Stephen Mulhern - "MEN! Seem to be doing this too! I just wonder if the men are buying dresses!!! (Crew laughter is heard).
itvHolly is shown smiling.
itvPhillip however, is nonplussed! (See image above).
Phillip Schofield (shrugs his shoulders) - "Well its possible."
And moves on.
Good Balance, but even better had Stephen not ridiculed transgender people. Had he said it with a straight face then fine, but the fact he laughed about it (and Holly humoured him too - they are mates) makes it bad! Especially on a show that features so many transpeople. C'mon Stephen get a grip. Despite you Peter Pan looks, you ain't a
kids presenter anymore at 18 you are 36!
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The Reith Lectures
Grayson Perry
05/11
BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d ... e#b00sj965
Comment
The last lecture in this Witty and educational series from Grayson - top marks!
Grayson is a very funny person who delivers knowledge in an easily digestible form. I have leaned a lot about art from him, more than any art teacher taught me. The fact Grayson is stood there in a frock becomes kinda irrelevant.
And apart from a few cross-dressing jokes at the beginning, that's it! This is like the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures without the experiments. For this you need a great orators and Grayson (or Claire in this instance) is just that.
Excellent!
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Ladyboys
05/11
Pick TV
Following on from the acclaimed documentary exploring the world of Thailand's Ladyboys, this series offers further insight into a sector of Thai society that makes up one per cent of the country's population. Western men who have found love with ladyboys discuss their experiences.
Comment
Again, Good.
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The Simpsons
'Wedding for Disaster'
06/11
Channel 4
After discovering that his marriage licence with Marge is invalid, Homer proposes to her for the second time.
However, his disappearance on the big day means another case for Bart and Lisa.
In this latest episode there is this instance when the 'Parson' - who is treated like the local pope - comes to town (clearly a Bing Crosby look-a-like, and Ned Flanders treats him like a member of 'One Direction' by swooning all over him). When speaking to his old friend - Tim the local reverend - he says to Tim (Reverend Lovejoy) speaking about Lovejoy's wife Helen:
Parson - "I remember when she was Helen Schwartzbaum. In fact I remember when she was Harold Schwartzbaum!" (Hayley in Coronation Street used to be Harold).
"You what?!" Retorts Rev Lovejoy.
Parson - "I've said too much!"
(Image: Channel 4/ Fox)An awkward moment.
Not a bad thing, some may say positive? But it also looks like deceit and fraud.
Reminds me of the B-movies of the 50s - transgender people are like some body snatchers - you could be in the room with one now! RUN!
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New - American Dad!
06/11
BBC THREE
8/18. The Unbrave One: Animated adventures of a CIA agent. When Stan has a fight at the cinema and Steve doesn't back him up, Stan dubs Steve a coward and disowns him. [S]
Comment
Interesting one this.
The Hooker, whose 'John' wanted her penis shot off appears on the end of a sing song at the end of this episode - no rhyme nor reason for her being there other than just 'there'. But since when do cartoons have to make sense?
bbcThe original quite transphobic episode can be found here and here is the first time we see the trans-hooker.
viewtopic.php?f=106&t=1022
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Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami
07/11
4Music
Khloe gets asked to judge a Khloe Kardashian Look-a-like contest.
There was so much wrong with this show I do not know where to begin.
She makes it clear from the outset saying, "I do not like being compared to a tranny!" She then goes on - "I Know drag queens and 'trannies' are not the same."
Yet she goes on to say 'tranny' a number of times. The argument here is the gay drag queen look-a-like contest was for a gay group in Miami. But she would not support a hispanic community group by saying the N-word (black racial slur) over and over it has no relation whatsoever and is offensive to that group.
This show had nothing to do with transsexuals, yet was advertised as such, it was a drag queen contest, yet she used the term 'tranny/ie' throughout.
Channel 4 again.
Nitemare!
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The Simpsons_Channel 4
'The Good, the Sad and the Drugly'
08/11
Channel 4
When Milhouse takes the blame for one of Bart's school pranks, Homer decides to punish his son by sending him to the retirement home to visit Grampa. However, things begin to look brighter for Bart when he falls for Jenny, a young volunteer at the home, and tries to behave in an attempt to win her heart.
Although Bart and Millhouse having problems over a girl has been done.
Now this I like this episode - LOL send out the trumpets!
Bart falls for a girl who makes him polite and well behaved.
At dinner Bart is eager to lay their table.
Bart - "So this is what laying the table is if I had known I would have done it without the tantrums!"
Marge comes in - "Oh Bart I don't care if this is just an act (rubs his hair lovingly) you have finally become the boy every mother dreams of - a girl!"
Now that's clever!
A line I wish I'd thought of
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Alan Carr - Chatty Man
08/11
Channel 4
Comic Alan Carr hosts his own light-hearted chat show. Guests include Robin Thicke, Paul O'Grady and Jack Whitehall, who is also joined by his father Michael to discuss their new book.
Comment
Always goes a bit awry when these two are on together, last time they were laughing about 'trannies' see
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3391
In almost a carbon copy situation
Paul O'Grady - I would rather have a guest on the show from Corrie (Coronation Street Soap) than some A-list Yank who can't talk about anything.
Alan Carr - And you can't mention their love-life, you can't mention their plastic surgery, their alcoholism, [NO LAUGHS AT THIS POINT So he must get one] Or Cross-dressing! Oh Yeah!
Audience laughs
This is actually terrible, anything to do with a 'man' in a frock is laughed at. Any transperson who does not 'pass' cisnormatively is laughed at! Alan Carr is laughing with the audience at cross-dressers, many transpeople in the early stages of transition are mocked in this same way, Channel 4 broadcast this show, Paul O'Grady clearly does drag for money, and not because he is trans. As does Alan Carr - just for a laugh. What prize f*ck up this really is! And in part Channel 4 will never deliver on their promises. Unless they find someone who is capable of this show or a show like this without resorting to a cheap trans laugh! Nobody laughed at alcoholism (addiction), or plastic surgery in his joke! Yet soon as they mention something that is known the world over as a very distressing soul-destroying situation a transperson just wanting to be themselves - then only to be laughed at by this guy says it all! Paul also rambled on about cross-dressing even had it in their teaser for laughs.
This is like one of the 'Black and White Minstrels' of the 70s going on a chat show and doing gags about being black!
Ridiculous.
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The Graham Norton Show
08/11
BBC ONE
5/18. Chat show. Graham is joined by actor Jude Law, starring in new gangster movie
Dom Hemingway; comedian Greg Davies; Dot Cotton herself, June Brown; and pop sensation Lady Gaga. Also in HD. [S]
Comment
To be fair to Graham and the BBC this was not of their doing, but they did choose a
clip that mentioned transvestites. So Trans Currency is being used here by proxy!
That's a new one eh? So the value of a promo for a movie is focusing on transgender issues even if it is just a passing comment! And not the theme. Here is what happened.
The Film is Dom Hemingway, Jude Law appears in the clip on a train as some 'cockney geezer'.
Jude Law - OHHHHHH!!!! My head is throbbing! (REMOVES SUNGLASSES) Like some vanilla disco full of transvestites
suckling pigs! Coke! I did too much!
A descriptive we can do without, and why choose that clip?
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The Change
08/11
BBC Radio 4 Ex
Different for Girls: Can transvestite George dump his entire wardrobe for wife Carol? Stars Lynda Bellingham and
Chris Ellison. From November 2001. Episode 2 of 6.
Comment
Good - but made in 2001 - maybe that is why!
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The Reith Lectures (Repeat)
Grayson Perry
09/11
BBC Radio 4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00729d ... e#b00sj965
Comment
The last lecture in this Witty and educational series from Grayson - top marks!
Grayson is a very funny person who delivers knowledge in an easily digestible form.
Excellent!
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The Change (Repeat)
09/11
BBC Radio 4 Ex
Different for Girls: Can transvestite George dump his entire wardrobe for wife Carol? Stars Lynda Bellingham and
Chris Ellison. From November 2001. Episode 2 of 6.
Comment
Good
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Ladyboys (Repeat)
09/11
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. Revisit the highlights of the first series, as the eye-opening documentary joins Thailand's most successful transgender entrepreneur on the campaign trail for equal rights.
Good - would love to see the Thai Trans Man culture - yeah funny nobody seems to have thought of that
No charge for these ideas!
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Sunday Side Up
10/11
ITV1
Stephen Mulhern shakes up lazy Sunday mornings with a live family entertainment show, packed with celebrity guests,
showbiz chat, games and surprises. Stephen is joined in the studio this week by Coronation Street star Jennie McAlpine. Includes the two-minute silence for Remembrance Sunday.
Comment
Remember earlier we mentioned Stephen Mulhern and his gung-ho approach to crossdressing for laughs that Phillip Schofield realsed was not a good idea?
Well in the second of a new series here he is again.
Jenny - who plays Fizz in Coronation Street talked about the storyline regarding transsexual character Hayley, and just how moving it was. She gave a present to Stephen and said they we from the knicker factory - I don't buy this for a second. As it was a 'bit' for him to do throughout the show for laughs.
Later he comes back from the ads and is fidgeting and says - remember the knickers I was given earlier? Well they are very tight!!! They all laugh of course as does Fizz. Who played Hayley's foster child at one point in the soap!
This week Hayley shouted her concern over wearing Y-Fronts! In an argument with Roy. And here we have Fizz laughing about a man in women's knickers? Maybe if Hayley was an actual transsexual woman she would think a little differently. Again it demonstrates the vaccum of ignorance her tenure has delivered.
It is still funny to laugh at a 'man' who cross-dresses.
They are tight - very tight!
Fizz and everyone in the studio laughs.
They finish off with send us your videos of you dad dancing in a bra!
Why not their mother? So this is again something thats asexual and funny a mum would be what? Too creepy? X rated?
Rather than something that is actually serious for some is just a 'laugh' - lighten up!
Some may say, what is the difference between this and , say, Matthew Wright doing this in the Jungle in a white Bikini? Well it is about how and why it is happening. It is the context. Matthew historically (we watch like a hawk as you well know) has been a powerful transgender ally, his behaviour in the jungle was a social commentary, it was a light hearted ploitical statement almost about how women have to do this 'performance' and he stole that away. He also bought the bikini for himself - it is his bikini!
And he wanted to wear it.And next month we even see it again on his daytime sown to the shock of the original white bikini jungle girl Myleene Klass who was on the panel!
For all I know he is on the trans spectrum - if he is welcome
Compare this to say Little Britain or Stephen above? Well that's crass low-brow throw-away jokes at our expense. It lacks sophistication - Big Difference! But most may not notice it and this is why we log!
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CSI - New York
12/11
5 USA
The Lying Game: The team investigate the murder of a transgender showgirl, but find the case complicated by the sheer number of suspects. (14/24) [S]
Comment
Now at first glance this may assume to be the typical trans murdered storyline and a bit of a blight on Channel 5 as they were our channel of the year for 2011/12.
However, this particular showgirl (shown in flashbacks) is non other than transsexual Candice Cayne (who later went on to 'Dirty Sexy Money') YES A REAL TRANSSEXUAL ACTRESS!!! In this instance even if the storyline is unpalatable, they still hired a transwoman to play the part of a transwoman - a bit like the UK Paddy Power ad storm in that a trans person is a transperson no matter how uncomfortable it is, or what the script says - just get trans faces acting! And she got to do plenty of acting in flashback. So this is great and what I personally have been and still continue to advocate and press for in UK media.
When I first saw this a few years back I had a different view, primarily down to the exploitative title, the 'Lying Game' ('Crying Game' Film title etc) and suggesting she was lying being a trans woman, but Candis' later work has won me over. This was clearly a big step to hire and actual transwoman and so this softens the blow so to speak.
You have sometimes got to kiss a lot of frogs (metaphorically speaking of course
) to find that princess role.Good stuff!
However it is night and day compared to a similar role below!
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Breakfast on Pluto
13/11
Film4
(2005) Comedy-drama. Cillian Murphy stars as a young Irish transvestite adopted at birth, but now searching swinging 70s London for his real mother. Very strong language/violence. [S]
Comment
This is a good old violent film and takes many twists and turns. If you like gangsters and terrorism this is ideal!
However, the lead is not a transperson (that's always going to grate, sorry!). The transvestism seems like a bolt-on to a story that didn't really need it. Its like making James Bond Trans to get a little more 'juice' out of the story.
Adapted from this book, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_on_Pluto the fact it is a fiction from a cisgender man's mind and does actually prove problematical -and the failings soon show. The lead soon blurs the boundaries into gay life, sexual abuse and sex work. Well that's what transpeople do eh?
It is also repeated on the Channel 4 (Film 4) roundabout as some tokenistic minority effort. Its cheap to keep doing this than produce fresh new dramatic content with trans actors of course. The other film they regularly show being 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' - also annoying and pointless. The music in Hedwig is so bad that only a fake trans character (yeah the person had surgery to escape East Berlin so is not even trans) has enough currency to carry it.
Breakfast on Pluto was obviously heavily influenced by 'The Crying Game' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_Game it almost feels like the same film in places.
Its OK to watch, but I think using the word 'transvestite' in it, give the impression that it is giving the transcommunity a nod. It ain't! Its using our 'currency' to add value to a plot - exploitation - rather than empowerment.
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The Xtra Factor
10/11
ITV2
X Factor companion show. Caroline Flack and Matt Richardson go behind the scenes after the main results show to
find out what the judges and the contestants are thinking following the latest elimination. They chat to the departing act, welcome a panel of celebrity fans and take questions and comments from viewers via social media.
Comment
This is an interesting one and rather than about tranpeople it is more how people treat cross-dressers and humiliate them - especially men.
Here is the sequence of events:
1. One of the favourites to win the show is young Nicholas McDonald (the Scottish vote) is in the after show show, talking with the boys about what they get up to in the 'house' where they are staying for the duration of the show.
Last week, Rough Copy gave him an 'urban' make-over. This week we see him parade up and down in high heels.
But this is the reaction of the boys.
itv
itvThey then rather than eave it there find a photo of him as a child like this:
itvHome in on it and dissect this 'strange' behaviour! Circling the weaknesses.
itvHis reaction?
itvHis face says it all! Not only is this out of order, it is humiliating him where there is nothing to be laughed at!
So what if he wore heels as a kid? That's sweet!
Then when the boys reaiised he was not laughing with them they all went "Awww!"
The host at the screen looked a bit worried...
itvThe temperature drops like a stone - now look at the boys faces - within 1 minute!
Caroline intervenes - "Um would you consider a man-heel? Like Cuban?"
Nicholas - "What's that?"
He smiles at the end - and the ice is broken.
But here we see what is wrong with the world.
Firstly - we have a child who maybe expressing themselves in a gender variant way. All these years later it haunts him? He wears heels for fun and is humiliated! I think he was quite perplexed at this being a big deal actually. Maybe his family are not oppressive and indulged his needs, you know?!
Any trans child or teenager watching this must have felt sick!
This is a very poor television!
They just are not thinking beyond 'the laugh' after all, what if he is a closeted transperson? I am not saying he is
I don't know, but what if? This is abuse!
Would they laugh at Eddie Izzard sat there in heels? I doubt it.
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Ladyboys
10/11
Pick TV
Best of Series 2: Second series of the intriguing and, at times, emotional documentary that travels to Thailand to explore the world of male-to-female transgender persons. The illuminating insight into Thailand's transgender society concludes with an episode dedicated to the best bits of the second series.
Comment
Very Good - but the UK public should remember this is culturally specific and does not travel to the UK in the same context or labels!
Transpeople are not performers, nor are the Katoi in Thailand, they have to earn a living - given the choice most want to marry a westerner who will support them and escape this life it seems!
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The Paul O'Grady Show
11/11
ITV1
Paul O'Grady returns for a new series of his early evening chat show with celebrity guests, musical performances and a few surprises too. Today's guests include X Factor's Louis Walsh and Coronation Street's Helen Worth, and there is music from The Saturdays.
Comment
No stranger to using transphobic labels ('TRANNY' Don't worry we have the video clips), Paul O Grady returns to his later afternoon slot for a few weeks on ITV1.
McFly have written his introduction song.
One line in it goes.
[...]
# He's just a little bit crazy,
# He's Zany!
# He used to be a lady! (in a high pitched 'Little Britain' voice).
# The Paul O'Grady Show!...
[...]
itvThis at first glance seems harmless, the trouble is if you look at this review here you can see it is far from harmless!
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4019
In this we have NHS Nurses unsure if Paul is a Transsexual? Even using him as an example!!!
I know the argument is they must be stupid then? But that's not the point. If Paul 'Used to be a Lady', then now he is presenting as male, even if we forget about Lily and his drag career. This would be a transman, this would not be something you remark on. Tell any transman they used to be a lady! Good luck in hospital!
McFly thought ....hmmmm what rhymes with O GRADY? And so this is born. They probably don't know what they are saying either? After all it is all 'harmless' fun eh?
As for Paul's track record here is just two instances:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1764
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=3391#p32432
This is classic Gay Licence in action and needs to STOP!
http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=2976
So often it is 'the butterfly effect' where they have a collective responsibility to change, not just one or two well-meaning trnanspositive broadcasters and presenters we give awards to. see:
http://www.transtvawards.comBroadcasters have blood on their hands. They need to stop and reevaluate everything in this area.
The public get their education from Television for the most part these days. Get that wrong and so do they!
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New - American Dad!
12/11
BBC THREE
11/18. Old Stan in the Mountain: When Stan is rude, an old man casts a hex upon him to make him old and feeble. Contains adult humour. [S]
Comment
Oh dear here we go again!
BBC Three continue with this and will not stop nor listen nor change anything they do.
Stan is in the hospital aging fast and for no reason at all!
And this is just someone walking by in the corridor dressed like a cowboy.
TRANSCRIPT
Stan - Hexes aren't real?
Camp cowboy overhears and looks in around the door - You all saying Texas ain't real?
Doctor - No, Hexes!
Cowboy - OK good cos Texas is real for sure!
[THIS IS THE POINT TO EDIT! STOP HERE! BUT NO THERE IS NOT ENOUGH HUMOUR IN THIS THEY NEED MORE 'CURRENCY' - SO MAKE A WITHDRAWAL FROM THE GOLD THAT TRANSPEOPLE GENERATE!]
Cowboy - Now if you'll excuse me I am going to have my penis removed in the first of many painful steps it takes to become a woman!
[END SCENE]
bbcBBC Three also showed Quagmires Dad on the 13th - and we see Brian projectile vomit when he realises he has slept with 'a man' this came from 'The Cleveland' Show and that is made by the same production company Fuzzy Door/Fox and shown on Channel 4 (e4 to be precise) they projectile vomit in that to and use the word 'tranny'.
The BBC and Channel 4 are struggling! It is like nothing has happened at all in 3 years. And again fail apart from one or two rare instances in 365 days.
Our awards in January will reflect and explain this.
As an aside and a little transmedia trivia this gag has actually already been done by the same show anyway and here it is!
SPOT THE DIFFERENCE?!
American Dad
'AT the abusive terrestrial'
BBC Three
During this episode Stan and Francine find out their beloved soft drink company Mt Pibb is closing down. The tour
guide then out of the blue says:
bbc"It was my last tour anyway, tomorrow I am having a sex change operation, from now on I'll be living my life as a woman."
Stan and Francine just ignore this and carry on talking about Mr Pibb Drinks.
bbcThen we cut again to the trans character stroking a box of tampons saying,
"Oh soon my sweets!"
This is a cartoon but it is just so loaded with misinformation it's no wonder parents are terrified. No 'real life
test' for this patient it seems.
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The Wright Stuff
13/11
Channel 5
Lively magazine show in which Matthew Wright and guests discuss the topical issues of the day.
Comment
Our regular winner of http://www.Transtvawards.com Matthew Wright is away in the Jungle for 'I'm a Celebrity - Get me Out of Here!' So the panel consisted of Presenter, Donal MacIntyre, Comedian Dominic Holland, Journalist Carol Malone and special guest Andy Parsons. Andy is a regular on BBC 'Mock the Week' and MTW has some very transphobic content - just search our site!
In this instance they talk
About Breast Feeding - Andy Parsons - "You are even going to get blokes dressing up as women with their man-breasts..."
Its not the subject rather it is the reaction to cross-dressing that most worries me.
The very thought of a 'bloke' dressed as a woman in this instance leads to laughter!
The same reaction in the 'Xtra Factor' earlier - it reminds me of people at a party telling a racist joke out of the earshot of a black person - they would not do it in earshot of Eddie Izzard. What they forget is this is being broadcast to the nation! Cross-dressing is not 'funny'. When it is no longer funny and it becomes mundane this will all stop. But it needs a little help to get there!
Its a lot to expect a comic to stop telling jokes that always get a laugh! And it is a brave channel that stops it!
This is why the BBC and Channel 4 have failed in their plans to deal with it. Smaller Channels with a tighter grip like Channel 5 have fared a lot better.
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Gogglebox
13/11
Channel 4
Television review comedy series in which TV fanatics open up their living rooms to reveal their reactions to popular and topical TV shows.
Comment
Of all the programmes to choose from and of all those programmes clips they chose this one!
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4043
Channel4And there it is! The mind of a Channel 4 Producer!
And on both occasions as 'Bouncers' was a Channel 4 programme as well!
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This Morning
14/11
ITV 1
Presented by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby. Coronation Street's Antony Cotton gives a culinary take on his life, the cast of West End musical The Bodyguard perform, there is a look through the day's headlines and a round-up of viewers comments and views in the Hub.
Comment
Not a huge issue but adds to the problem transpeople experience.
In this interview we have this dialogue
Interviewing the leads for the West End musical of the 'BodyGuard' BEVERLEY KNIGHT
as Rachel Marron & TRISTAN GEMMILL as Frank Farmer. The male lead TRISTAN says:
Tristan - I saw the film the night before the audition in case there was anything I should know - something glaringly obvious?..
Phillip Schofield - Yeah [like] he's a cross-dresser!
Then they laugh like this...
itv
itvThis is serious arched-back laughing as well not just a wry smirk or wink...
Why is this funny? Being trans is not funny. It is a core identity of a person who may be seriously depressed and traumatised constantly by laughter at any gender variant comments. A trans child transitionIng at school gets this same reaction from staff and pupils - is that OK?
I am a little tired of this reaction to anything regarding cross-dressing. It really is one of the biggest burdens our community has. Defeat this reaction below and we have won!
When you take into account that 'This Morning' probably is one of the most transpositive shows on daytime tv. And this is the reaction (above) to cross-dressing comment? Then it is a worry. It demonstrates just how institutionally transphobic society is in general, the thought of any person 'designated male at birth' wearing a dress. Well they are clearly a laughing stock.
Having trans guests and even Lauren Harries present a part of the show, does not excuse this tye of reaction, this type of reaction is difficult to mask. It drops the guard (no pun intended) and we can see what people really think of the issue in these moments. The same applies to Holly on 'Celebrity Juice' when confronted with similar themes.
Firstly Phillip could have avoided this completely by not saying this at all - it was unnecessary to the interview.
Secondly, if by saying it they reacted like Tristan here, with a calm and a straight face, that shows an element of control - even respect for the issue.
If there was some message in this, satirical, or like Matthew Wright in the Jungle, whereby there is actually some social commentary tired in with it then fine, after all Phillip has cross-dressed in the past for 'Text Santa' - to be 'a sport'. So OK in these instances there is more going on than a case of lets all laugh at a transgag.
Transgags always get a laugh - and this is the problem! Its a brave comic who stops doing this. If Eddie Izzard who has every right to do this manages to avoid it then so can you Phil!
Unfortunate and a rare negative for what is in general a good show.
My advice is even if you think it, let's not see this reaction or comment anymore.
Sadly this undoes his positive behaviour at the beginning of this month with Stephen Mulhern.
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Celebrity Juice
14/11
ITV2
Keith Lemon continues the tenth series of the outrageous comedy panel show. Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton lead two teams of celebrities as they answer questions about the latest showbiz gossip and take part in rude and ridiculous challenges. Among the guests on the panel this time are McFly's Harry Judd and Dougie Poynter.
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This is not a repeat.
So we have this shot of the 'greens-screen' game where they put the faces of the guests onto the bodies of celebrities and they have to guess who they are. The modern equivalent to sticking post-it notes on your forehead with famous people's names on them.
Aled Jones got Clare Balding.
I guess there is a similarity. However. historically this game almost always goes a bit transphobic, its obvious why.
In this instance there was an interesting transphobia by proxy gag - remember this term you are going to see it more and more in the future as there is a shift away from direct to indirect transphobic comments. Here is a prime example. http://library.transgenderzone.com/?page_id=3000
Aled - Do I wear high heels?
Laughter
Holly - I don't know actually?
Aled - I do at home! (meaning Aled does, to get a laugh).
itvFortunately Holly and Keith (Leigh Francis) did not labour this comment. So that's a positive. Sadly though laughing at a person 'Designated male at birth', wearing high heels, being laughed at is lazy, tired and considering Aled interviews Transpeople on ITV's breakfast news show 'Daybreak' then this is again, why? Why would you appear to ridicule transpeople you may have to interview tomorrow?
Clueless really and a bit stupid.
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The Change
15/11
BBC Radio 4 Ex (Repeated on the 16/11).
Birth of the Blues: Transvestite George gets thrilling news, then a bombshell drops. Stars Lynda Bellingham and
Chris Ellison. From November 2001. Episode 3 of 6.
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Again good programme, but made in 2001. That was when the BBC actually cared about trans issues! And they listened to us! And most importantly spent some money producing it!
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The Simpsons
'Coming to Homerica'
14/11
Channel 4
Homer forms a border patrol group to help keep Springfield's borders secure from the unemployed residents of Ogdenville.
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Transcript
Krusty the Klown - (About his burgers not being healthy and launching a new 'green' burger for the vegetarians to save the planet! That leads to food poisoning - but thats another story).
K - "Find the cheapest vegetable and make a burger out of it and double the price!"
K - "And say it's got none of those...What are those unhealthy HE-SHE Sounding things?!"
Lawyer/Marketing consultant/accountant - "Uh? Trans-fats?"
K - "Yeah that's it!"
HE-SHE? = TRANS?
FFS!
Last time this 'trans-Fats' gag was used was by non other than well-known Lesbian and 'The Great British Bake-off' Host Sue Perkins when she said... in 'Horsemeat & Other Food Shockers',"Ready meals contain Hydrogenated Vegetable oil, and that means they contain fat tranny ...[Shows a clip of Rio carnival dancers and a crotch shot]...sorry trans fatty acids which are bad..."
Here again it is 'gay licence' (Sue is not unique, we have Norton, Carr, O'Grady all at it Tranny this and Tranny that). However more rare is that a lesbian woman is saying it.
Well anything with 'trans' in it is fair game eh? Oh the fun to be had abusing us!
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) but I just wanted to say wow: a real mind-boggling amount of work went into that. 
Sometimes I see a catalogue of people I want to throttle, but I am adept at dwelling on the more negative bits...