Trans Hate Attacks in The SUN
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The Queer Youth Network has written to the Press Complaints Commission following the publication of an article in The Sun newspaper which described sex change operations as "Sick Body Mutilation".
Upcoming dance artist Kim Petras who last year signed a record deal with Joyce Records has been described as "tacky" by tabloid columnist, Sky News presenter and former TalkSport radio presenter Jon Gaunt.
Earlier this year, The Sun interviewed Petras as she talked openly about her gender-reassignment surgery, which Gaunt described this week as "misguided" and more "odd" than Michael Jackson.
Milo Twistleton of the Queer Youth Network told Queer News: "She is someone who has a dream like thousands of people in the world" and felt Gaunt's article was "full of ignorance and incites transphobia".
The youth organisation claims that sensationalising the experiences of Transsexual people in the media makes hate crime seem more acceptable and more of a threat.
Crime statistics show Trans people are especially vulnerable to violent, unprovoked attacks and are significantly over-represented in hate crime figures nationwide. Many more incidences are thought to go unreported.
More information and further reading:
Queer Youth Network: http://www.queeryouth.org.uk
Trans Youth Network: http://www.transyouth.org
Trans Media Watch UK: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=158966085360
Kim Petras: http://www.myspace.com/kimilinlein
Jon Gaunt: http://www.gaunty.com/
Upcoming dance artist Kim Petras who last year signed a record deal with Joyce Records has been described as "tacky" by tabloid columnist, Sky News presenter and former TalkSport radio presenter Jon Gaunt.
Earlier this year, The Sun interviewed Petras as she talked openly about her gender-reassignment surgery, which Gaunt described this week as "misguided" and more "odd" than Michael Jackson.
Milo Twistleton of the Queer Youth Network told Queer News: "She is someone who has a dream like thousands of people in the world" and felt Gaunt's article was "full of ignorance and incites transphobia".
The youth organisation claims that sensationalising the experiences of Transsexual people in the media makes hate crime seem more acceptable and more of a threat.
Crime statistics show Trans people are especially vulnerable to violent, unprovoked attacks and are significantly over-represented in hate crime figures nationwide. Many more incidences are thought to go unreported.
More information and further reading:
Queer Youth Network: http://www.queeryouth.org.uk
Trans Youth Network: http://www.transyouth.org
Trans Media Watch UK: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=158966085360
Kim Petras: http://www.myspace.com/kimilinlein
Jon Gaunt: http://www.gaunty.com/
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Jon Gaunt. What a disgrace to the human race. How can someone be so backwards in this day and age? I'd love to give him a piece of my mind. GRR bad man!! i hope he wakes up with a vagina one day to match those lovely man boobs of his.
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Dozens of members of the Queer Youth Network have written to complain about Sun columnist Jon Gaunt, who described gender reassignment as "misguided" and "slightly sick".
The LGBT youth organisation has also lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission.
The article in question focused on Kim Petras, the German 16-year-old trans singer. She underwent gender reassigment a year ago, having fought to have the law changed. Usually, only those over the age of 18 are permitted to undergo the surgery.
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