TV newsreader makes a comeback after transitioning to female

[Willowicious]

TV newsreader makes a comeback after transitioning to female

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/10/03/tv-newsreader-makes-a-comeback-after-transitioning-to-female/

Nick Duffy
Pink News
3rd October 2016, 12:16 PM

A TV newsreader who quit six years ago to transition to female has made an on-screen comeback. India Willoughby had presented the news for the ITV Border region for more than a decade under her former name, presenting as male. However she quit the role in 2010 to step away from the spotlight – and in the subsequent years has come out as transgender and transitioned to female. Six years on, she has returned to ITV as a newsreader for the Tyne Tees region – this time as a woman."

[aaajjj55]

We shouldn't underestimate the significance of this - this is not self promotion (as with Jenner) or sensationalising ->-bleeped-<-, it's just a transwoman undertaking a role because of who she is, not what she is.

Like Stephanie Hirst (who has also undertaken reporting roles on BBC) she is a credit to the transgender community and these women are proving to be excellent role models to increase understanding in the wider community.  It obviously helps that both are attractive women and I do fear that these opportunities would not have been open to them if they looked more overtly transgender.  Conversely of course, they both prove that being transgender does not make one a freak.

Even the newspapers are calling her a transgender newsreader rather than 'sex swap/sex change' newsreader so I think the message is starting to hit home.

Amanda

[stephaniec]

Transgender newsreader opens up about on-air comeback after taking time off to transition

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/10/14/transgender-newsreader-opens-up-about-on-air-comeback-after-taking-time-off-to-transition/

Pink News/By Nick Duffy  14th October 2016, 1:46 PM

"A transgender newsreader who made her on-screen comeback this month after taking time off to transition has spoken about her life.
India Willoughby had presented the news for the ITV Border region for more than a decade under her former name, presenting as male.
However she quit the role in 2010 to step away from the spotlight – and in the subsequent years has come out as transgender and transitioned to female."

[julogden]

Good for her! I hope we see more and more acceptance in the media.

I remember reading an interview MANY years ago with a surgeon who did reassignment surgery that mentioned that he had done surgery on MTF women who later went on to be TV news readers, so this has happened before quite a while back, but of course back then, it was not publicized.