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Title: Transgender group furious at BBC for ‘offensive’ Russell Howard sketch
Post by: Shana A on April 15, 2011, 09:26:24 AM
Post by: Shana A on April 15, 2011, 09:26:24 AM
Transgender group furious at BBC for 'offensive' Russell Howard sketch
by Jessica Geen
14 April 2011, 4:21pm
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/04/14/transgender-group-furious-at-bbc-for-offensive-russell-howard-sketch/ (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/04/14/transgender-group-furious-at-bbc-for-offensive-russell-howard-sketch/)
BBC Three comedy Russell Howard's Good News is under fire from transgender campaigners who say a recent sketch ridicules a "vulnerable minority".
Trans Media Watch said that the sketch, based on the story of a Thai airline hiring trans women, shows trans people as "objects of ridicule [and] physical disgust."
The April 1st sketch shows two airline attendants in makeup and women's clothes showing their male genitals to passengers. One passenger vomits at the sight.
by Jessica Geen
14 April 2011, 4:21pm
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/04/14/transgender-group-furious-at-bbc-for-offensive-russell-howard-sketch/ (http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/04/14/transgender-group-furious-at-bbc-for-offensive-russell-howard-sketch/)
BBC Three comedy Russell Howard's Good News is under fire from transgender campaigners who say a recent sketch ridicules a "vulnerable minority".
Trans Media Watch said that the sketch, based on the story of a Thai airline hiring trans women, shows trans people as "objects of ridicule [and] physical disgust."
The April 1st sketch shows two airline attendants in makeup and women's clothes showing their male genitals to passengers. One passenger vomits at the sight.