Journalist slammed for transgender gaffes
Posted on04 February 2011.
http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2011/02/04/journalist-slammed-for-transgender-gaffes/A Danish journalist has been criticised after repeatedly referring to a transsexual woman as a man and using the phrase "freak show" in a programme about sex change operations. The Danish National Organisation for Gay Men, Lesbians, Bisexuals and Transgendered Persons (LGBT) filed a complaint with TV2 after its Eastern Jutland affiliate broadcast the comments of reporter Soren Jensen last month.
In a report focussing on new gay magazine Proud, Jenson continually refers to a transgender woman (a man who has undergone a sex change operation) as a "man". He also asked the magazine's editor: "When can you stop describing such person as an affectionate 'woman-man' and start describing them as an outright freak show with perverted urges?"
