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Thread: IPSO has commissioned an independent report to find out how newspaper coverage of transgender issues has changed over time and why.
Where trans coverage used to be disrespectful and pejorative over a decade ago now it is not, but now there are new problems.... /1
Where trans coverage used to be disrespectful and pejorative over a decade ago now it is not, but now there are new problems.... /1
Journalists are now too scared to cover trans issues. Fearful of backlash on social media and transactivists.
Here is what they said /2
Here is what they said /2
"We’re nervous about doing coverage" /3
"I have never seen anything like the trouble my publication had over this article." /4
IPSO’s transgender guidance to always use preferred pronouns was frequently singled out as being problematic by women's groups.
"IPSO is complicit in promoting one view of the sex-gender issue" /5
"IPSO is complicit in promoting one view of the sex-gender issue" /5
Editors and writers share these concerns
"There are lots of examples of where we aren’t able to report properly because of the pronouns guidance" /6
"There are lots of examples of where we aren’t able to report properly because of the pronouns guidance" /6
"what matters to everyone else is their sex, not their innate gender feelings" /7
Read more about what the investigation found here and the work we are doing to ensure honest, accurate and fair coverage of matters of sex and gender identity. /end https://fairplayforwomen.com/newspaper-coverage-of-transgender/
