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Researchers and scholars have been discussing media representations of gender and their impact on audiences over the last fifty years in the Western context. However, most studies on this subject have taken “gender” and “woman” as interchangeable terms, overlooking how various gender identities are depicted in the media. Most work on media representations of transgender is carried out by activist groups of trans persons and allies, and one such group is Trans Media Watch (TMW), a charity founded in 2009 that aims to improve media coverage of trans issues in Britain. It was the awareness of the devastating effects of media representations of transgender that ridicule and dehumanize trans persons that brought the group together to tackle the struggle over representations of transgender in the media. This study explores how TMW is challenging the media, discussing what the group understands as “problem coverage” and the alternatives they propose, as well as their methods and strategies to get their message across to media professionals of how they would like trans persons to be represented. The study also discusses the group’s position in the British context of media and trans activis

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Author

Silva de Assis, C

Publisher

Utrecht University

Published

2014

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction