Bingo! Calling out transphobia in the UK media

jane fae
7 min readNov 17, 2020

A Baker’s Dozen of tropes, techniques and total tripe that the UK media reach for when trash-talking trans people

An allegory of Truth and Time by Annibale Carracci (1584): public domain in US and elsewhere

Over the last three years, the UK press and broadcast media have unleashed an unprecedented wave of hate against trans people. To the enormous chagrin of our media barons, it is not (yet) permitted

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jane fae

Feminist, writer, campaigner on political and sexual liberty who also knows a bit about IT, the law and policing. Not entirely serious…