A recent study found exposure to negative media messages was associated with poor mental health among trans people (Hughto et al 2021). We call on newspaper editors to be socially responsible by ensuring that coverage of trans issues is proportionate, accurate and humanising. Tweet added by BPS- Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity @BPSSexualities

BPS- Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity

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A recent study found exposure to negative media messages was associated with poor mental health among trans people (Hughto et al 2021). We call on newspaper editors to be socially responsible by ensuring that coverage of trans issues is proportionate, accurate and humanising.

Jeffrey Ingold

@Jefflez

3 years

Today is my last day at Stonewall and the 144th day of 2021 The Times (incl. The Sunday Times) has now published 223 stories about trans people & ‘trans issues’ this year That’s almost two a day! It’s not normal. This is a concerted campaign against trans people by the UK press

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BPS- Gender, Sexuality and Relationship Diversity

@BPSSexualities

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Here is a link to the study

(PDF) Negative Transgender-Related Media Messages Are Associated with Adverse Mental Health...

PDF | Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the extent to which transgender people have observed negative transgender-related messages in... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

www.researchgate.net

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Helen🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕

@mimmymum

3 years

@BPSSexualities It’s got to the point where unknown ‘gender critical’ transphobe can get their trans-hostile propaganda published in multiple news media outlets in a single day, and trans voices are continued to be ignored by editors! 😣

Helen🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕

@mimmymum

3 years

Having failed in their attempt to bully the @EHRC into their transphobic interpretation of the EA2010, transphobes are now relentlessly trying to destroy @stonewalluk 😣 Here’s ONE ‘gender critical’ transphobe published in TWO national news outlets in ONE day! 😳 #ComplicitMedia

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Amy/エイミちゃん(🇯🇵学んでる🇺🇸人）

@AmethystTrotter

3 years

@BPSSexualities @jack_turban

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SimoneR-B

@simone_r_b

3 years

@BPSSexualities I have never felt more unsafe as a trans person or applied psychologist in the UK and it is comparable to the fear before coming out, living in the 80s/90s and working within education systems still routed in section 28 discrimination.

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Lavender Menace

@whataboutthel

3 years

@BPSSexualities @TransActualUK I expect that explains why the transexual community are feeling so very disappointed that Stonewall intends to *literally erase them*. Free to be... but not if you are a transexual or a homosexual it seems. Shame on them.

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fickleskittle

@fickleskittle

3 years

@BPSSexualities It is. The problem is they don't want accuracy, they want affirmation.

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Kevin Aylward B.Sc.

@KevinAylward12

3 years

@BPSSexualities @Nancy_M_K In other words, don’t state anything, however true, that may slightly annoy trans supporters and ignore all harm to everyone else, no matter how severe that harm is. No one has a monopoly of a shield simply by emotional appeal to claims of victimhood. *Everyone* has rights.

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WEP Women's Sex-Based Rights Caucus

@WepWomen

3 years

@BPSSexualities Can BPS show some examples where this is the case please?

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born slippy

@TAG273

3 years

@BPSSexualities Don’t most trans people suffer with poor mental health?

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Sybil 💜🤍💚 🟥 🇬🇧 🐐

@Weatherwax6655

3 years

@BPSSexualities Could you provide an example of the offending coverage, that links to the poor mental health of 270 trans-identifying people in the study?

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