Jillian Page's Uncut Interview

Laura Beeston — December 5, 2010

http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/781

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Have you always been sensitive to the ways journalists and the media report on "gender" issues? How have you seen this change over the course of your career? Can you comment about the gender parity temperature out in the real world?

I really only became aware of how newspapers were dealing with transgender issues about 10 years ago, as I was finding my way through the wide world of ->-bleeped-<-.

What I noticed immediately is that newspapers didn't know much about the subject or the terminology. They didn't know the difference between a drag queen and a crossdresser and a transsexual, for example. And they didn't know how to deal with pronouns.