Tom Joyner Morning Show Team Dips Into Transphobic 'Comedy' In Garner Case
http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/06/tom-joyner-morning-show-team-dips-into.html6/18/13
Monica Roberts
I'm a huge fan of the syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show that has a national listening audience of 11 million African-Americans.
But right now I'm a little pissed about them dipping into transphobic comedy this morning to talk about the ongoing Tracey Lynn Garner case unfolding in Jackson, MS.
During the 7:00 AM CDT hour of today's TJMS show Joyner started reading the story about Garner on air and seized on something that I've complained about in terms of covering trans people. I don't like it along with many people in the trans community news outlets or reporters printing the old names of transpeople in stories when they are not germane to it because it opens the floodgates for transphobia to happen. What I feared would happen did when Joyner read her old male name on air.
