JUST PLAIN SENSE: Extra material

[Shana A]

19 December 2010
JUST PLAIN SENSE: Extra material
Posted by Juliet Jacques at 07:46

http://julietjacques.blogspot.com/2010/12/just-plain-sense-extra-material.html

On 17 December, I recorded an edition of Just Plain Sense, hosted by Christine Burns, instrumental in the passing of the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Christine's Equality and Diversity podcast has featured guests such as Calpernia Addams, Gerald Kaufman, Peter Tatchell and Julie Bindel, and I was honoured when Christine agreed to feature me. The podcast itself is here, but there were many things that we did not have time to discuss further. Christine gave me her script, so more extensive answers are below.

I: THE MEDIA

CB: What are your recollections of trans people in the media when you were at school? Did those affect you?
JJ: As a teenager in the mid-Nineties, I encountered trans people in varying media: tabloid newspapers, television and film and the women's magazines that my mother bought. The overall sense these initially gave was it would be safer not to disclose my transgender status, as society would not support me if I did.

[lilacwoman]

quote: 'often Jewish-looking'?  UK newspapers can be as bigotted as they like.