Journalist Juliet Jacques on how UK media is trying to ‘crush’ trans people
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Quote:Juliet has a unique perspective on the issue. She’s a writer who made a name for herself writing about trans issues for major media outlets.
Around eight years ago, she could see that things were starting to get worse. Newspaper editors, once interested in platforming trans people’s stories, started to prioritise transphobic talking points pushed by a small but vocal group of self-described “gender critical” feminists.
“Particularly after the 2017 election, the mainstream media started saying, ‘No, the political issues you’re trying to bring to the table here are not acceptable to us – we will crush you,'” Juliet says. She describes that election as “a pretty empathic victory for legacy media”.
“That’s been followed by an even greater centrality of transphobia within the discourse because a lot of the more material concerns we were trying to advance got crushed.”
Today, it’s hard to see how things could be much worse. Many newspapers publish numerous articles each week pushing fear-mongering falsehoods about trans people.
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~ Erin Hunter